Word: blackmail
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...January the Pentagon expanded its rules to compel service personnel, civilian workers and contract employees with clearances to divulge whether they have engaged in such sexual acts as adultery, sodomy and incest. The rules are intended to ensure that those with access to secrets are not vulnerable to blackmail...
Some critics object that most security problems occur not through sexual blackmail but bribery. Others protest that the new rules may violate civil liberties. Homosexuals will be eligible to get or retain clearances, says a Pentagon spokesman, if there is no threat of blackmail or vulnerability to coercion...
...Gary follows these rules, then he should have a happy, healthy sexual relationship free from trauma, blackmail, and lingering death. If he does not, he may run into trouble...
...years ran the $129 million-a-year PTL empire, which includes the Heritage USA theme park in Fort Mill, S.C. Six weeks ago he stepped down as PTL president and chairman after admitting to a 1980 tryst with Massapequa, N.Y., Church Secretary Jessica Hahn and to then making a "blackmail" payment. A $265,000 hush-money package was assembled for Hahn and her advisers...
...somewhat familiar, and at the Japanese and Koreans. If we really press to get rid of those weapons, Gorbachev would have difficulty turning us down. Also, remember that the goal of arms control is not just to reduce the danger of war but to reduce the danger of blackmail, and that's why we need to be concerned about Soviet conventional superiority. The Soviets have stonewalled on that. Now it's time to tackle that problem. I think we should make a condition that at the end of the five-year period, when we are removing our cruise and Pershing...