This omission the CIA conveniently blamed on a handful of spies.

On this they can't conveniently blame Westminster, I think Salmond should be seeking to change direction as he is leading Scotland to national ruin and despair.

The Transit Authority's own data attribute less than a third of these to the subway rebuilding program, yet the authority conveniently blames this reconstruction for its atrocious performance.

A rising mass hysteria in the United States (e.g., "Submarined by Japan and Norway," editorial, June 22) conveniently blames Toshiba Machinery, Toshiba's subsidiary, and Norway's Government-owned Kongsberg for Soviet submarines too quiet to be detected by the old listening devices of the United States Navy.

It conveniently blamed the brewing troubles on those surrounding the King rather than Charles himself, specifically "the cunning practice of Papists, and malicious Counsels of divers ill-affected Persons, inciting his Majesty to raise men."

A week ago Mr. Ieng Sary and several Khmer Rouge generals publicly split from the hard-line leadership of the organization, calling for reconciliation with the Government and repudiating the murderous Khmer Rouge policies of the past, for which they conveniently blamed Pol Pot.

In New York City, for the first time since 1969, we constituents of the public-school system have a mayor who has nobody but himself to conveniently blame.

Sorry, he'd say, but you fit a description we got from - whomever he might conveniently blame,- maybe the French or Italians - and one cannot be too careful with international air travel.

To the Editor: Verlyn Klinkenborg conveniently blames industrial agriculture for Iowa's brain drain.