Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Elliot Richardson put it recently. The U.S. fully realizes that it cannot effect any lasting solutions in Viet Nam and Southeast Asia without at least some cooperation from China. Also, Washington worries that a lack of contact between China and the U.S. might embolden the Russians to blackmail or attack China. In view of Moscow's superior military strength, an American show of neutrality would only benefit the Russians; yet because of the communications void between Peking and Washington, the U.S. would have no other choice, short of retaliating directly against the Soviets. Washington would like to make...
Some Western specialists observed that the implied threat of exile may be a form of blackmail. They believe that Soviet authorities are playing on the only thing that Solzhenitsyn fears-expulsion from his beloved country-in the hope of finally silencing him. "All my life is here," Solzhenitsyn has said, "the homeland-I listen only to its sadness. I write only about...
...used to be; Roy M. Cohn just isn't what he used to be either. It has been more than fifteen years since the McCarthy hearings, highlighted by the special Cohn investigations of subversion in foreign embassies and military bases, and today Roy Cohn is in trouble: charges of blackmail, stock-manipulating, bribery, and fraud. Everyone knows about it, from the readers of Life, to Bob Morgenthau, District Attorney for Southern New York (the man who has brought the case against Cohn...
...three Americans look on homosexuals with disgust, discomfort or fear, and one out of ten regards them with outright hatred. A majority considers homosexuality more dangerous to society than abortion, adultery or prostitution. Society's hostility toward the homosexual-particularly the male -leaves him wide open to blackmail and job discrimination. Police, concentrating more on attempting to control homosexuals than those who prey on them, often resort to such quasi-legal and demeaning tactics as entrapment. The stresses of living hidden lives create in homosexuals a high incidence of anxiety and other psychological problems...
...commit forcible rape, seduce children or commit sex acts in public. But "discreet homosexuality is the private business of the individual rather than a subject for public regulation"; prohibition of "the crime against nature," as many statute books coyly phrase it, merely raises the homosexual's vulnerability to blackmail and "exacerbates" his mental-health problems. The commission recommends that the U.S. follow the example of England, which two years ago legalized homosexual acts between consenting adults in private -as recommended by the celebrated Wolfenden report-and has suffered no discernible ill effects. The U.S., along with the Soviet Union...