Word: blame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Actually, individual whites have never held much land in West Africa, hence that region has been spared the embittered struggles between black and white that have cropped up in the cooler, more habitable reaches of the east. Even in the bloody Congo, Belgians blame themselves for much of the chaos and exonerate the Congolese for the slaughters that followed independence on the grounds that it was nothing more than tribal ebullience-long restrained by Belgian rule-expressing itself at the agitation of Communists...
...30th of September Movement-is now Indonesia's vilest villain, as Sukarno's heir apparent, Foreign Minister Subandrio, learned much to his dismay. The army was now wondering if he did not have a role in the bloody coup attempt. But last week Subandrio tried to blame it all on the American CIA. "There are indications," he declared in a speech beneath tinkling glass chandeliers at Merdeka Palace, "that several Indonesian newspapers are now financed...
...fought back in interviews by arguing that his views were, after all, the same as Erhard's. His foes paid small heed. Snapped der Alte: "You have proved totally incompetent. Germany's position in the world has sunk to a new low, and you are to blame...
Though the slow-moving Corsican natives have themselves to blame for not moving into the new land fast enough, they nonetheless curse the newcomers -and Paris-for their plight. "This is an island," says one bitter native, "surrounded by the sea and monopolies...
Ponderous Deliberations. Railroad men tend to blame lengthy merger proceedings on the ponderous deliberations of the ICC and the federal courts, a process that can take upwards of five years. In its defense, the ICC cites the enormous complications of amalgamation. ICC Commissioner Kenneth H. Tuggle points out that railroad mergers involve hundreds of millions of dollars and can determine the economic development of a region for decades to come. Says he: "It takes time to listen to the grain people, the milling companies, the commuters, the mayors of cities, the Governors...