Word: blackmailed
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...NATO country was talking in terms of diplomatic blackmail, or even of bargaining their new importance against the U.S.'s need. But the need is now more nearly mutual. That change in balance will be reflected in the deliberations of the NATO leaders later this month...
...earth satellite to be called the Vanguard. Not anything else. Just Vanguard . . . But it was the Soviet satellites that proved to be in the vanguard." Then, all joviality abandoned, Nikita Khrushchev made clear his intention of using Russia's new technological power as an instrument of international blackmail: "We would like a high-level meeting of representatives of capitalist and socialist countries to take place so as to reach an agreement based on the consideration of true reality...
...late thirties and early forties, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre starred in a series of exceptional mystery films. The Mask of Dimitrios, like The Maltese Falcon, On Green Dolphin Street and Casablanca, follows modern fairy-tale characters through intriguing morasses of international espionage, murder, and blackmail with a charm that remains fresh...
What Money Buys. Last week Chile's supreme court granted asylum to him and four of his friends on the ground that the offenses they were charged with were political. But it balked at Greyshirt Kelly, ruled that the charges of murder, robbery and blackmail against Kelly were both well-founded and nonpolitical; Kelly was ordered returned to Argentina...
After the first rash of headlines, the U.S.-publicly and officially-took the announcement as it should have been taken: calmly. Old Soldier Dwight Eisenhower took note of the Communists' "boastful statement." NATO's Commanding General Lauris Norstad noted tersely that the Russians had made blackmail threats before, had failed before. "Then," he said, "the alliance was unshaken, even unimpressed. So it will...