Word: blackmail
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Truckers' Blackmail...
...truckers' demonstrations [Dec. 17] are base blackmail. There are dozens of other professional groups and thousands of industrial workers who have had their income cut off entirely, instead of just reduced a bit, as a result of the energy crunch. Most have clenched their teeth, pulled in their belts, put on sweaters, and are working a little harder...
From someone else, this might sound like political blackmail. Yamani, however, has a way of making such statements sound eminently sensible...
...measure of how desperate the situation had become when a nation as dedicated to European unity as The Netherlands felt compelled to use Arab-style blackmail threats against its European partners, in flagrant violation of Common Market rules. But the fact was that, as the Dutch pointed out, it was also against the rules to refuse to share oil with a Common Market partner in need...
...policy is not based merely on oil blackmail. Egypt is desperate for economic development. Even during the war, representatives of American oil companies and hotel chains were in Cairo working on projects for oil exploration and tourism. The Egyptians know American technology, and the Egyptian elite has largely been educated at American universities. The men around Sadat are pro-American, in the sense that they see improved ties with the U.S. as Egypt's best hope for the future. There is a sense that American foreign policy will prevail, despite Nixon's domestic crisis, and that...