Word: blackmail
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...plot could have come from a popular potboiler. An ambitious young British politician has a one-night fling with a prostitute, who then tries to blackmail him. When he refuses to pay, she tells her tale to the press. But the newspapers nobly refuse to print her story, and the politician goes on to become Prime Minister...
...Soviets will begin living up to the arms control agreements that they've agreed to. SDI is one of the chief reasons the Soviets went to the summit and one of the primary reasons they'll come back again. SDI is the key to a world free of nuclear blackmail...
...letter from four academicians replying to Andrei's article in Foreign Affairs, "The Dangers of Thermonuclear War." Though Andrei stressed "the absolute inadmissibility of nuclear war" and called for "complete nuclear disarmament based on strategic parity in conventional weapons," the Izvestia letter charged that Sakharov "calls for nuclear blackmail directed against his own country." A flood of letters began, as many as 132 one day, that berated and maligned Sakharov. Soon, the magazine Smena published an article by Yakovlev expanding on what he had written in his CIA book. The flood of letters changed direction, and many became openly anti...
...leniency toward Abdallah. According to Le Canard, the deal was scotched when the U.S. intervened with a civil suit against Abdallah for his suspected role in the 1982 murder of the U.S. military attache. Chirac denied that his government had ever negotiated with the F.A.R.L. "I am allergic to blackmail and to terrorism," he said...
...came only four days after another bomb had ripped through a crowded post office at Paris' city hall, killing one person and wounding 18 others. Amid a wave of minor and apparently unrelated bombings across Western Europe last week, Paris remained the center of a brutal game of terrorist blackmail...