Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lips tight with anger, Faure sprang to the rostrum. "There have been neither threats nor blackmail on the part of our allies," he snapped. "But is it abnormal, is it surprising that our continual hesitations, our twistings and turnings, have troubled our allies? Let's not forget the past. Who asked for the Atlantic pact in the first place? It wasn't America. It was Europe. We feared that there would be no more American troops in Europe, or that the American troops would arrive too late." Bluntly, Faure warned: "We cannot always change our minds after having...
...Russia?" Last week, after more than four years of rambling speculation about his whereabouts, Bruno Pontecorvo, 41, could at last publicly answer the youngster's query, "Yes"-with a vengeance. In a bristling letter to Pravda, Pontecorvo wrote that he had left England because of "the sugar-coated blackmail of the police," found asylum in the U.S.S.R., where his brain had dwelt on "atomic energy for peaceful aims." He also sprang a surprise: he had won a secretly awarded Stalin Prize last year. Later, Pontecorvo, proud occupant of a Moscow flat and a country villa, waved a Soviet passport...
...obvious. Attorney generals and district attorneys are politicians as well as legal officers. The power of unrestricted wire tapping could easily become a dangerous instrument in the hands of a man willing to misuse his office for political advantage. And indiscriminate tapping might offer a tempting means of blackmail, even against persons not guilty of criminal violations...
...that the hiring and continued employment of federal workers must, in the judgment of department and agency heads, be "clearly consistent" with the interests of national security. The order recognizes that an employee may be loyal, yet still be a security risk. The homosexual may be easy prey to blackmail. The person with relatives behind the Iron Curtain may be exposed to overwhelming pressures. The alcoholic may unintentionally blab secrets...
...week's end, President Eisenhower, who does not intend to pay blackmail for American prisoners, called on the nation for patience. "We must have faith in the community of nations and in the tremendous influence of world opinion," the President proclaimed. "We must not fall into a Communist trap, and through impetuous words or deed endanger the lives of those imprisoned airmen . . . We must support the U.N. in its efforts so long as those efforts hold out any promise of success...