Word: blame
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Misused Powers. As for the CIA's domestic transgressions, the commission reportedly absolved the agency of much blame, noting that Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon drove the CIA to overstep its bounds. Johnson had an obsessive belief that foreign money and influence must have been behind the students' revolt and the antiwar movement. Nixon also prodded the CIA to misuse its powers and spy on dissenters. The commission called for tighter controls on White House access to the agency and tighter congressional oversight of its operations...
...leaders-who self-righteously claim that criticism is the work of Communists-may not be aware of the rising doubts about their performance. Yet a sense of unease on the part of many Chileans is unmistakable. If the police terror and economic deterioration are not reversed, many more will blame Pinochet and the junta-not the damage wrought by Allende-for the country's hardships...
What has caused the shift to violence in Evanston and other U.S. schools? A number of Evanston parents blame the high school for not enforcing discipline and punishing offenders. "They're hushing things up," says Mrs. Winston Hough, who has two children in the school. "They're afraid it will reflect badly on their image." School officials blame an atmosphere of permissiveness in the home and a lack of respect for authority. "Some of the students simply don't feel that the punishment is great enough to deter them," says Security Chief Richard Goggins. "They have little...
Assault Charge. Evanston School Superintendent David Moberly places some of the blame on the difficulty involved in punishing students: "The whole court process has planted in their minds a 'do what you want' attitude." Furthermore, he says, the court process seems to drag on interminably. The suspect in the rape case, for example, remained in school most of the year awaiting prosecution. In April he was apprehended on an assault charge and he finally dropped out of school while officials were preparing to expel...
...aground in 1968 in gale force winds on a sandbar outside New York harbor. A flashing light maintained by the Coast Guard was not working that night, but the trial court concluded that "the fault of the vessel was more egregious than the fault of the Coast Guard." The blame, ruled that court, was 75%-25%. Yet the damages had to be split evenly. After considering those facts, Justice Potter Stewart, a World War II naval officer, weighed the old "equal division" rule and found it wanting: "An ancient form of rough justice, a means of apportioning damages where...