Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...windows and sent Arab diplomats letters calculatedly filled with frightening detail. "The fact that you are married to an English girl will not help," goes one such letter. "We have watched you drive unharmed around London in a blue Mercedes while your country condones terrorist activities. Don't blame anyone if something happens to you." Says one recipient: "I used to stroll along Oxford street on my lunch hour...
Since the end of the war, West German courts have convicted 6,330 people of war crimes and extended the statute of limitations to provide time to bring others to justice. West German officials acknowledge that delays exist. They blame a shortage of court personnel and the fact that witnesses are frequently too old or nervous to testify reliably, making it necessary to round up corroborative testimony. If witnesses abroad are unable to travel to testify in Germany, a number of delicate international negotiations must be carried out before a German investigating judge can journey to, say, Poland or Israel...
Kissinger argues fairly persuasively that at least part of the blame for the drawn-out negotiations must be laid to the style and temperament of the U.S.'s adversaries. As a Johnson Administration adviser in the 1960s, Kissinger was a keen student of the Vietnamese negotiating style. In his remarkably prescient Foreign Affairs article, Kissinger noted "the peculiar negotiating style of Hanoi: the careful planning, the subtle, indirect methods, the preference for opaque communications which keep open as many options as possible." North Vietnamese diplomacy, he observed, operated in somewhat baffling "cycles of reconnaissance and withdrawal." Even...
...drugs they discovered a means of escaping a world they despised. By the time of this season's Standard Dreaming, Hortense Calisher's story about a father searching for his lost son (Harvard drop-out, naturally), the parents have become the lonely and confused generation. They "cast nets for blame", because they are ready to accept that the problems of the young are the fault of the old, wondering whether they are mad to remain hopeful during what appear to be the death throes of their society. While "it was their young who raged at it, or mourned...
...political luxury of truth." Eisenhower and Kennedy are along to offer comments, sometimes speaking in their words, sometimes in Vidal's. A host of other personalities offer their actual comments on Nixon. The result would be cruel, except that, as Vidal is pointing out, Nixon has only himself to blame...