Word: blackmailed
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...advance from Simon & Schuster for his first novel, has now peddled film rights to the book to Paramount Pictures. His price: an estimated $75,000. Titled The Company and due in the stores by May, it is about a U.S. President who dabbles in domestic spying, then faces blackmail by the CIA. "If I stick to a routine and don't get too loose, I can write 15 to 25 pages a day," says Ehrlichman. Now appealing his 1975 conviction for Watergate-related crimes, he has already started work on a second book, which he describes as another "purely...
...Syrian game is based on the assumption that in [1976] the U.S. is softer and the capabilities for them to blackmail the U.S. for political concessions are better. I hope that after the American veto in the Security Council this week they will reconsider this position...
...late '50s, trying to sour Indonesia's late President Sukarno on the Soviet Union, the CIA produced a film purporting to show him engaging in sexual relations with a woman in Moscow-and planned to pass off the movie as a KGB blackmail attempt. Before the film could be circulated in Indonesia, however, the CIA had second thoughts and canceled the dirty trick...
...needs of the underprivileged nations are so pressing that some Western politicians-such as British Minister of Overseas Development Reg Prentice-describe them as a "time bomb for the human race." There are even exaggerated fears that radical poor nations, after acquiring nuclear explosives, might try to blackmail rich nations into giving up their wealth by threatening a nuclear holocaust. A more plausible danger is that the conflict could destroy the international economic system on which the stability of much of the world is based...
...arrival creates a sensation, for he is on the arm of an aging Hollywood star, the Princess Kosmonopolis, whose drug kick he plans to use to blackmail her out of her fortune. But Heavenly's father, Boss Finley intervenes; he puts out a contract on Chance's manhood...