Word: blackmailed
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...Another lawyer, Joseph Yanny, believes the church "has so subverted justice and the judicial system that it should be barred from seeking equity in any court." He should know: Yanny represented the cult until 1987, when, he says, he was asked to help church officials steal medical records to blackmail an opposing attorney (who was allegedly beaten up instead). Since Yanny quit representing the church, he has been the target of death threats, burglaries, lawsuits and other harassment...
...address the more fundamental problems in the Nicaraguan economy. Chamorro must stop stalling on privatization efforts. She must gain the political will to defy the unions if she wants to reduce her government's $35 million-a-month deficit. She must stop extending credit to pay for union blackmail if she wants to control inflation...
That view was reflected even more strongly in an Izvestia article by Georgi Arbatov, the noted Americanologist and former Gorbachev adviser. He warned that opponents of perestroika "have tried to exploit natural discontent and worry to turn the clock back. They are trying to blackmail our parliament, politicians and even the President." If so, the principal blackmail victim was proving no mean shakedown artist himself...
Other Germans disagree. "You cannot build a new start on a lie," says Barbel Bohley, a leading civil rights activist from Eastern Germany. She warns of the possibility of a "corruptible parliament with members susceptible to blackmail" for their Stasi past. Says Karl-Dietrich Bracher, a political scientist at the University of Bonn: "If we were to have a general amnesty, there would be a general disgust with politics. Some kind of purification is necessary...
That could be difficult to prevent. Some former top Stasi officials may have fled to the KGB or other intelligence services with a wealth of incriminating information that could be used for blackmail or to besmirch the characters of prominent persons. Still others may be offering to keep quiet in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Wolf's successor as head of the intelligence agency, Werner Grossmann, was arrested on Oct. 3 but was freed the next day without being charged. Fischer said Grossmann had probably made an "arrangement" with the West Germans...