Word: blackmailed
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...nature of modern weapons, there is a special onus attached to preparing a nuclear defense, then the Russians-who cheated upon and broke the three-year moratorium-now had a new opportunity to decide whether the U.S. goes ahead with its tests. A maneuver "strongly resembling blackmail," cried the Russian news agency Tass. The Soviet Union declared that it had no intention of accepting Western proposals for a test ban at this month's 18-nation conference on disarmament in Geneva...
Victim. An entertaining but tendentious thriller that illustrates a shocking statistic: in nine out of ten cases of blackmail in Britain, the victim is a homosexual. Not for the kiddies...
Victim (Allied; Pathé-America), a British picture that the Johnston office has found "thematically objectionable," elaborates a startling statistic: in nine out of ten cases of blackmail in Britain, the victim is a homosexual. Why? The answer, as provided by a speech in the script: "A law which sends homosexuals to prison"-as Britain's does-"is a charter for blackmail." As the film begins, a young homosexual (Peter McEnery) who has robbed his employer to pay his extortionist is caught by the police. Rather than implicate the eminent barrister (Dirk Bogarde) with whom he is emotionally (though...
...hour workers' strike to protest the police methods used to break up the Bastille demonstration stalled Parisian industry and business. City and suburban buses halted, the Paris subway and commuter train service was affected. Actress Brigitte Bardot, who had won respect last November by publicly defying an S.A.O. blackmail attempt, walked off a movie set along with film technicians...
...France itself. It has made a lot of noise in Paris and the provinces with the explosion of 400 plastic bombs at carefully selected targets* and with the theft of guns and munitions from U.S. and French army camps?always well publicized by the press. But the attempts to blackmail funds from the rich and prominent have often backfired: Brigitte Bardot made the S.A.O. seem ridiculous by publishing their threatening letter. In France, the S.A.O. has an estimated 7,000 active members, among them about 500 plastiqueurs. This is enough for a limited war of nerves, but not enough...