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Though officials were quick to say what hadn't happened, they were at a loss to explain what had. How can the power demands of a not unusually hot day somehow bring a huge chunk of the northeastern electrical grid crashing down? The blame cascaded as fast as the blackout. On the ground some Americans blamed Canada for its origin; Canadians returned the favor. Ottawa officials first suggested that it was a lightning strike at a plant in upstate New York, except that it was a lovely sunny day in Niagara Falls, and there were no reports of lightning anywhere...
When the power failed last week, many Americans' initial thought was of terrorism. The 1965 BLACKOUT led some Americans to blame themselves or their cold war enemies...
...first, many thought the darkness came from within. A middle-aged executive who had been playing a too-vigorous game of basketball wondered if the fading light before his eyes signaled a massive coronary...Scores concluded that, like latter-day Mrs. O'Learys, they were personally to blame for the blackout. After trimming the ends of some loose wires in readiness for the house painters next day, a Manhattan housewife saw the whole city go black and gasped: "What have I done now?" A small boy in Conway, N.H., whacked a telephone pole with a stick, saw night descend...
...Rwanda contributed to the severity of the massacre. The Dutch peacekeepers who failed to act in Bosnia did not have adequate support or a mandate from the five permanent members of the Security Council--and the U.S. did not push for additional resources. And it is difficult to blame the U.N. for the failed mission in Somalia, which was composed mainly of American forces led by Americans, when non-American "blue helmets" became involved only in the process of withdrawal. WILLIAM LUERS, PRESIDENT UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION New York City...
...easily. The immediate flush of media attention last week centered on the sexier political debate over the slow and initially dismissive reaction by the conservative government of Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, much of which was on holiday as the death toll mounted. Raffarin has refused to accept any blame, while President Jacques Chirac was bizarrely silent - and on vacation in Canada - for the duration of the heat wave. When he finally addressed the crisis in televised remarks last Thursday, Chirac avoided finger pointing, instead emphasizing that "family solidarity [and] respect for the aged and handicapped" are necessary to avoid...