Word: blackmail
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Indeed, the 13 Moluccan terrorists -all members of leftist-radical youth organizations-never wavered from their key blackmail demands. They wanted the release of 21 other young Moluccans now in Dutch prisons for previous acts of terrorism, safe conduct and a 747 jet to carry them to an undisclosed destination outside The Netherlands. In addition, they insisted that the Dutch government cut all links with the Indonesian government...
...From the beginning," Prime Minister Den Uyl explained, "we made it clear there was no question of the hostages being transported somewhere else. And the demand for safe conduct, if granted, is an invitation to renewed blackmail actions." As for the political demands, Den Uyl said, "we have seen from earlier experience in the relationship between the Dutch society and the Moluccan community that the awakening of illusions, the making of concessions, punishes itself, leading to bitterness and disappointment...
...frenetic struggle to retain influence and hold the Soviets at arm's length. The villain is the Shah of Iran, who appears as a double-dealing megalomaniac bent on re-establishing the Persian empire by military conquest, and secretly developing a nuclear arsenal with which to blackmail his Arab neighbors. By story's end, the Western world is in shambles, with America's banks engulfed in a depositors' panic, supermarkets emptied by frantic hoarders, and half the world's oil reserves contaminated by nuclear fallout...
...defendant testified that Lee next threatened to expose him if he refused to deliver other materials. Boyce cooperated, fearing blackmail and remembering Lee's callousness as a child, when he shot his pet cat with an air rifle because it "bored...