Word: scapegoatism
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...TIME when people in the Soviet Union are beset with harsh economic and social realities, Pamyat's creation of a scapegoat has earned it a large popular following. Professor of Government Joseph S. Nye, Jr., speaking last month on post-Cold War foreign policy, speculated that Pamyat could conceivably win a plurality of Soviet votes in a truly democratic election...
...establishment, already disgruntled by reductions in the armed forces and the conversion of defense industries to civilian production. The platform issued by a coalition of ten "social-patriotic movements" that backed candidates in last Sunday's elections pointedly denounced efforts to turn the army, police and KGB into a "scapegoat for failures." Uniformed men regularly speak at these rallies, often decrying efforts, as one officer put it, to turn the military "into a prostitute, used for experiments that win applause in the West...
...passages in his book The Class Character of Zionism with Nazi writings. In her view, the official propaganda campaign against "Zionist racism" has been a form of sanctioned anti-Semitism. Now that glasnost is flourishing, she is worried about more virulent forms of prejudice as Russian nationalists seek a scapegoat to blame for seven decades of Communist misrule...
...alcohol abuse has not helped his credibility. Nor has the fact that he left the bridge in the critical minutes before the accident. Hazelwood's defense is nonetheless trying, as it wades through a witness list loaded with 112 names, to persuade the jury that the captain was a scapegoat. Says Michael Chalos, a defense lawyer who was a college mate of Hazelwood's: "We know it's an uphill battle, considering the pretrial publicity...
...boots, the high-stepping Illinettes do their best to psych up fans at football and basketball games. Though the task force suggested that boozy frat and tailgate parties should go too, it's the threatened pompon ban that has the campus stirred up. "We've been made a scapegoat," charges Illinette squad captain Pam Withers, 20, who says the Illinettes are campus role models. "We consider this a serious sport...