Word: blame
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...boys leap up. The 18 have been driving around the neighborhood in a similar white jeep, smashing in doors of MS houses and spraying everybody inside, grandmothers and children, with Uzis. Isidra Benegas, the mother of the crackhead, curses, "These deportees from the U.S. are to blame. They've brought the crack and the killing." A flicker of guilt crosses Cesar's face. He belonged to an MS chapter in Eagle Pass, Texas, before he was deported back to Honduras. "It's either live in the gang, or die," he retorts. And Cesar knows his death may be riding...
...getting the treatment reserved for the heaviest guns of 20th century art: Picasso in 1980, Matisse last year. If the show doesn't carry you along to the very last picture with its current of narrative expectation, as Matisse's did, it's hardly an occasion for blame. Miro was a marvelous artist -- some of the time. But he was also a painter with definite limitations, which began to show when, fairly late in his career, he started working on what one thinks of as an American scale. It is hard to bring to mind any of those big late...
...have absolutely no sense of guilt, no reproach whatever to myself.'' With that, the former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude (''Baby Doc'') Duvalier, 35, insisted last week in an ABC interview from his rented villa on the French Riviera that he could not be blamed for the plight of his country. But back home in Baby Doc's impoverished Caribbean nation, the three-man ruling National Council of Government, led by Lieut. General Henri Namphy, 53, seemed to be having a hard time holding the country together. The latest troubles began last month when the Information Ministry hired a sports reporter...
...paper urged action to correct the faulty seal, it concluded that the shuttle was safe to fly until a fix was made. The commission sharply disagreed, declaring that the briefing was ''sufficiently detailed to require corrective action prior to the next flight.'' The commission's reluctance to assign personal blame, while excoriating the agency's ''flawed process,'' caused one commissioner, Caltech Physicist Richard Feynman, to seek stronger language. He lost in his attempt to call some of NASA's managers ''stupid,'' but will record his own views in an appendix. Democrat Ernest Hollings of South Carolina insisted hotly...
...million cans of spray paint sold in the city annually. Such a measure would provide as much as $1.2 million a year for cleanup efforts and education and prevention programs. Paint-industry officials, understandably upset at the idea, are lobbying against it. ''It's ridiculous to blame us simply because we make the product,'' says Rick Birle, president of Zynolyte Products, a major spray- paint manufacturer based in Carson, Calif. Nonetheless, the proposed spray tax may prove to be the lesser of two evils. The 15 city council members are also considering another measure, which would require store owners...