71.   Kaumi laid the blame at the feet of the finance department, saying that it had been tying up requests for urgent relief in red tape.

72.   Laying the blame squarely on the United States, the Phnom Penh government Saturday denounced a decision to leave vacant its seat at the U.N. General Assembly.

73.   On the anniversary day, both Israel and the Palestinian governments laid blame for the seemingly intractable impasse on the other side.

74.   OSCE monitors and NATO officials have been careful in laying blame for earlier breakdowns in the cease-fire, saying that ethnic Albanian provocation also played a role.

75.   Prosecutors long have laid the blame on neo-fascists.

76.   Principal Michael Vierra said he sent notices to students and staff discouraging them from laying the blame for the attacks on any ethnic group.

77.   Security forces defused a car bomb outside an office of the IRA-allied Sinn Fein Party Sunday, and party leaders laid the blame on Protestant paramilitary groups.

78.   Slobodan Vuksanovic, spokesman for the opposition party, laid the blame for the decision in Smederevska Palanka directly on the Serbian president.

79.   Sharon insisted he bore no responsibility, laying the blame on Arafat.

80.   Solana laid the blame for the failure of the talks directly on Belgrade.