Word: scapegoatism
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Moore's allies in the White House believe his very job makes him a scapegoat. Says Press Secretary Jody Powell: "Most of the things he gets blamed for are someone else's fault." Including, in some cases, Carter's. The President views liaison with Congress on vital issues as his own responsibility-one he has discharged with uneven success. As a result, he has sometimes failed to keep Moore sufficiently informed to be effective. For instance, the U.S.-Soviet statement on the Middle East caught Moore as much by surprise as it did his Hill contacts. Another...
...crossing the unseen line, undeterred by rivers, mountains, deserts, men, guns or electronic detection devices. Often they arrive to find they are viewed with hostile eyes by Americans and called illegal, alien unwanted. The brown immigrant, like the Eastern European immigrant of an earlier era, provides an easy scapegoat for those frustrated with the high levels of unemployment and human suffering in our own country...
...using the most absurd and wild concoctions borrowed from the stock in trade of reactionary bourgeois propaganda." At his press conference last week, Carter observed: "I believe that the pressure of world opinion might be making itself felt on them, and perhaps I'm kind of a scapegoat...
...worried that the IRS will put pressure on Stones to tell all he knows about other athletes. Says Powell: "Stones could turn out to be the John Dean of amateur track." Others cynically predict that AAU reprisals will be selective and merely cosmetic-barring a few scapegoat athletes from competition while resisting fundamental change in the conditions that gave rise to the scandal...
...Department of the Interior is land-happy. "We can't turn everything into a park when the survival of the country is at stake," says Hunting Guide Terry Brady of Anchorage. Others resent what they see as outside interference in Alaskan affairs. "We're being made the scapegoat by a lot of people who draw lines on maps," Alaska's Senator Ted Stevens complained. "The people in the Brooklyn tenements and Florida condominiums look about them and see the devastation that development has caused in their area and they're determined to prevent the same thing...