1.   Harvard officials criticized Mansfield for making an incendiary statement he could not prove.

2.   The comments were the latest in a long tradition of top Japanese officials making incendiary statements and then sheepishly retracting them after they become public.

3.   The conciliatory tone was a marked contrast to recent incendiary statements.

4.   When Clinton and newspaper columnists criticize the arrivistes in talk radio for airing incendiary statements, they are applying standards that seem irrelevant to many devotees of talk radio.