Word: blackmailed
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...trip to the restive northern region of Catalonia to supervise the search for Oriel's kidnapers. In a dramatic TV address minutes before the Friday "execution" deadline set by the terrorists. Suárez's Interior Minister Rodolfo Martin Villa said that the government could not accept "blackmail and coercion" and had tried every channel of "worthy and humanitarian" solution to the kidnaping. If Oriol is killed. Villa vowed, his kidnapers will be hunted down...
...from the Ozarks. Such a flash of recognition would, of course, never persuade any court of Wolfe's guilt. But Bone's pal Cutter is convinced-perhaps because he associates the Wolfe type with those who sent him to Viet Nam. He devises a reckless plan to blackmail the millionaire. Bone objects that "extortion is a crime." Shrugs Cutter: "So's murder...
None of the so-called leaders even suggested that the entire U.S. socioeconomic structure hangs precariously. The threat of anarchy, easily precipitated by a natural or contrived catastrophe (food crisis, energy shortages, inability to communicate, epidemic disease, confiscation of private property by Big Business and/or Government, atomic blackmail by organized or unorganized crime) apparently remains remote to most leaders...
...airmen in Germany. The government seems to be thinking in terms of a cut of $795 million a year in defense spending, which would mean a reduction in that force to 40,000 men-later, perhaps, to 30,000. That such a threat-some might even call it blackmail-could be seriously voiced by Callaghan, one of the most pro-NATO politicians in Britain, underscores the gravity of the situation...
...Oscar Homolka as a magnificent agent of foreign powers and an undisclosible suspence sequence in which Hitchcock totally outraged the sentimental expectations of 1930s film audiences, particularly in America. Showing with Sabotage is Murder, a rarely shown Hitchcock from 1930, which should be great if it is anything like Blackmail (1929), its predecessor and the first British talkie...