Word: blackmailed
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...Democrats. Enter the back-scratching: Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords says he could bolt if Republicans don't give him a $180 billion plan to fully fund the federal share of education programs; Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson - as a narrowly elected red-state Democrat, a prime target for Bush blackmail - is talking to GOP leaders about farm programs. And Chafee may yet yield to the hard party sell: "The President feels strongly about it, and that was conveyed," Chafee said Monday...
...This week, though, it's more of Round Two of Bush's blackmail-the-legislator tour, in which he takes the stump in the home state of an influential (and wavering) senator or representative and urges cheering crowds to write or call said senator/representative in support of Bush...
Soon enough, both self-alleged Lucans tell Wolf that they know who she really is, or was. These two men, one of whom may actually be the missing earl, are evidently conspiring to blackmail their psychiatrist, and she goes into hiding once again, to plan a counteroffensive...
...compensation for the 1986 bombings and the crippling economic sanctions that followed. Gaddafi's words, which were much more strident than the initial Libyan response to the verdict, naturally found support in Tripoli editorials the next day. The Green March daily called the verdict "an open attempt to blackmail the Libyan people and to control its free revolutionary will, which has earned the respect of world...
...split hairs.) With U.S. sailors dead in a likely terrorist attack on a Navy ship in the Persian Gulf and Israel bombing Palestinian headquarters in retaliation for a Palestinian lynching of Israeli soldiers (and with Iraq threatening to suspend crude production in some wacky euro-support blackmail scheme and Venezuela mired in oil-labor troubles) there was only one commodity scarcer than confidence Thursday, and that was black gold...