Word: blackmail
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...expansionist ambitions. The U.S. considers him an international outlaw and has accused him of meddling in no fewer than 45 nations. When Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre were looking for a villain to cast as the mastermind of a plot to hold New York City up for nuclear blackmail in their novel The Fifth Horseman, they naturally settled upon Gaddafi...
...attacked Western Europe. After the U.S. lost clear superiority in intercontinental (or "strategic") weapons, probably around 1970, and now that it may have lost even parity, the message is more clouded. Europeans increasingly doubt that any man in the Oval Office, in the face of some Soviet diplomatic-military blackmail move, would really risk all of the urban U.S. "to save Rotterdam." (For some reason Rotterdam has become the preferred metaphor, perhaps because Dutch attitudes toward NATO are so spongy.) Recent U.S. Presidents have declined, as they must, to relieve Soviet uncertainties on this point. Henry Kissinger, out of office...
...plot grinds on, involving a murder that Bone has been a partial witness to. Bone suspects that a wealthy oil man mighthave done the slaying, and Cutter--claiming the world is short on heroes and with the victims's sister as an accomplice--sets out to ensnare, via blackmail, the oil man. All of this is seen through Bone's eyes, and the uncertainty he has about his own testimony makes the who whodunit air tenuous. Maybe it's all just Cutter's fantasy. Maybe life can be a detective movie. Maybe they're all victims of fantasy. Bone...
...study was the CIA's apparent failure to uncover allegations of serious impropriety in Hugel's business practices when the agency ran its customary background check. One main objective of the screening process is to find out if a prospective CIA official could in any way be blackmailed-and "blackmail" was precisely what Hugel last week accused his former business associates of having threatened...
...someone else entirely. Morality was similarly skewed. In simple terms, his job was to protect good people from bad people--but since he was devoted to tracking down those who didn't play by the rules, he didn't have to either. He could lie, cheat, steal or blackmail--and as long as he did it skillfully enough not to be caught by either the authorities or his own supervisors, he was the better man. Finally, he could never become emotionally involved with a client, since, all the old movies aside, it usually ended up closer to suicide than...