1.   In what was widely seen as a veiled attack on the French government, the Moroccan authorities blamed the disturbances on a conspiracy of foreign countries.

2.   Authorities blame Lidia Nunez, a convicted drug dealer from Massachusetts, and her three sons for the death of Peter and proliferation of heroin in this small town.

3.   Authorities blame weak laws, a lack of resources and the reluctance of prostitutes to testify.

4.   Authorities blamed Chechen rebels for the bombings, although the Chechens deny involvement.

5.   Authorities blamed Chechen rebels for the bombings.

6.   Authorities blamed the blasts on Chechen rebels, though to this day no one has been convicted of setting off the explosions.

7.   Additionally, Iraqi authorities blame thousands of civilian cancer deaths and deformities in babies on contamination by Western DU weapons.

8.   Afghan authorities blame the incidents on the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and the discredited mujahideen leader Hekmatyar, who opposed US airstrikes against the Taliban last fall.

9.   Government authorities are blaming everyone from peasant farmers to drug traffickers to careless cigarette-pitching motorists for contributing to the fires.

10.   He suggested that Ocalan, whom the Turkish authorities blame for tens of thousands of deaths, could emerge as a Turkish version of the Italian unifier Giuseppe Garibaldi.