Word: blackmailed
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...numbers really is? If Japan was brought to its knees with only two relatively small atomic bombs, just what is the real difference in what happens whether 50 nuclear warheads are built or 2,500? The trading off of numbers borders on being imbecilic. Just one stupid nation could blackmail the rest of the world with just one bomb...
Later, he mused that mention of blackmail and payoffs might be a "hard thing to explain, but I think it's explainable...
...latest role as Raisuli, "the last of the Barbary pirates," a hotter venture. Filmed in the arid deserts of Almeria, Spain, The Wind and the Lion co-stars Candice Bergen as Connery's American kidnap victim, and Brian Keith as President Theodore Roosevelt, whom Connery tries to blackmail. Based loosely on an actual historical incident, the movie required Connery to be costumed in Arab headgear so hot that it kept the actor within wandering distance of his air-conditioned trailer. As for Bergen, she calls her part "my favorite role ever -a sort of Annie Oakley in Morocco...
...thriller: how the smooth, ambitious organizer of a small cell of industrial and political informers programs each of the members to kill one another. The members take information from various fields of specialization and pass it along to a clever control, who uses it in turn to blackmail and barter for positions of power. He wants to liquidate them to consolidate his power and go on to bigger plots. His plan is carried out almost according to the letter, with just one hitch, stashed right at the end of the movie like a one-celled flashlight...
...using the U.S. mail to extort money. He faces 22 years in prison and a $20,500 fine. Sheila Heesch also pleaded guilty of being an accomplice to the dynamiting of two other towers near Maupin, 145 miles southeast of Portland, and to one count of extortion in the blackmail attempt...