Word: blackmail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then blackmail that, at last, Iranians have decided to liberate themselves from the shackles of imperialism and hunt down the traitors...
...hope that the U.S. will never bow to Khomeini's blackmail. If the Carter Administration agrees to Iranian demands, it will be a blow and a very bad example to those who love democracy...
...their own defense, officials in Tokyo insisted that Japan, like the U.S., was a victim of Iranian blackmail. Unless the oil was bought, they claimed, Tehran threatened to suspend negotiations on Japan's 1980 allotment of Iranian oil, which this year amounted to 11 % of Japanese consumption. Moreover, the officials said, buying the oil helped make up for the cut in oil shipments by U.S. firms to Japan, from 1.4 million bbl. a day in 1978 to about 1 million bbl. because of reduced production by OPEC members and the shippers' decision to fill domestic American orders first...
...have criticized many U.S. policies throughout the world, including Puerto Rico, but I'm against terrorism. Morally, I'm backing the U.S. 100% against the terrorist assault on the embassy's personnel in Iran and the blackmail of the U.S. [Nov. 26]. Nationalism is a good principle if expressed in a positive...
...propaganda has done what it could to make mischief. At first the Soviet Farsi-language broadcasts, beamed from Baku into northern Iran, harshly criticized the U.S. These were toned down after Washington protested. But last week, in its harshest volley to date, Pravda accused the U.S. of trying to "blackmail Iran by massing forces on its frontiers" and said that Washington was turning the crisis into "one of the serious international conflicts of the postwar era." The U.S. protested that the Pravda editorial was "deplorable," and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance complained to Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin during...