Word: scapegoatism
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Faced with a mushrooming crisis, Yeltsin last week called for a new effort to stem crime. Turning to the well-tested tactic of seeking a scapegoat, he fired Moscow police chief Vladimir Pankratov and city chief prosecutor Gennadi Ponomaryov for failing to "provide proper organization" to deal with "grave crimes." He chaired a meeting of the Security Council, which issued a stern warning: the continued activities of organized crime were "discrediting state powers" and "threatening the security of Russia...
...white-collar crime. Leeson, said Christopher Murray, his attorney at the firm, simply wanted to return to England "to put the record straight." Leeson's sister Sarah, 18, was emphatic. "One person can't lose all that money," she said. "They are playing on his background, making him a scapegoat because of his upbringing. There has got to be a conspiracy...
...process he has alienated military officers by taking away their commercial enterprises and party men by tightening up credit for money-losing state enterprises. If inflation runs out of control and the economy goes bust, a political observer in Beijing notes, "Zhu will end up as the scapegoat...
...cash payments to them only account for one percent of the Federal budget. They feel free to attack illegal and legal immigrants and blame Democrats for mothers who kill their children. Republicans are also pressing for the repeal of Affirmative Action programs and civil rights statutes to provide a scapegoat for whites who are increasingly afraid of losing their jobs (especially to "unqualified" Blacks...
...York last week, Kofi Annan, the U.N. Under Secretary for Peacekeeping, bridled at the charges of U.N. do-nothingness. "I believe the United Nations has been made a scapegoat," he charged, by "member states who do not want to take the risks." An official at NATO headquarters summed up U.S. frustrations: "It's because the Europeans say one thing in New York and something different here...