Word: blackmailed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manhattan hotel from mid-September until Oct. 16. The two, also known as Robert and Nancy Richardson and by more than a dozen other aliases, are being sought by federal authorities for an attempt to extort $1 million from McNeil Consumer Products Co., the makers of Tylenol, with a blackmail note saying that the payoff could "stop the killing." Illinois Attorney General Tyrone Fanner has called Lewis "a prime suspect" in the murders as well. Lewis was already wanted in Kansas City on charges involving credit-card and land swindles last year. In 1978 he was freed on a legal...
...regarded as antiChristian. We can be revolted at My Lai and not be anti-American. We can scorn Iran's Ayatullah and not be anti-Muslim. But we can never even question Israel's actions against the Arabs lest we be branded antiSemitic. That is psychological blackmail...
During the 1976 presidential primaries, Ronald Reagan accused the Ford Administration of maintaining a "mouselike silence" in the face of "blackmail" from Panama's "dictator," General Omar Torrijos. Reagan repeatedly used a line guaranteed to get applause: "When it comes to the Canal, we built it, we paid for it, it's ours and we should tell Torrijos and Co. that we are going to keep it!" Reagan's position appealed to many Americans because he presented the issue, simplistically, as a test of our nation's power and greatness...
...international dangers were also obvious. We and our major allies were susceptible to potential political blackmail from the oil-producing nations. Consumer nations that had little or no energy of their own were especially vulnerable and were inclined to modify their foreign policies accordingly...
...financial rewards of espionage have created some strange and frightening partners. Among those attracted to high-technology centers have been professional criminals who resort to blackmail, bribery and the use of sex to obtain equipment and proprietary information...