Word: blackmailed
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...deviate from an unbroken church practice of ordaining only men. Bishop Leonard has collected 18,000 signatures from conservative Anglicans, some of whom say they might follow him into an independent schismatic church if the Church of England approves female priests. Proponents of ordination for women call this stand "blackmail." Says Margaret Webster, executive secretary of the Movement for the Ordination of Women: "They made those threats before women were ordained in the American Episcopal Church, but few people actually left...
...Indeed, without ever mentioning that weapons sales had been involved, Reagan proclaimed defiantly, "Certainly it was not wrong to try to secure freedom for our citizens held in barbaric captivity." Six sentences later, with no apparent awareness of inconsistency, he pledged that the U.S. will never "yield to terrorist blackmail." It was not so much the lack of an "apology" that was disconcerting; it was the lack of any sense that he understood why a secret scheme to trade arms for hostages was a mistake, and one that he had made...
...revealing new light on King's human side and on the vicious secret pressures he faced from the FBI. The complex and convincing portrait drawn by David Garrow, associate professor of political science at New York's City College, describes how the bureau under J. Edgar Hoover tried to blackmail and intimidate King with tapes of his sexual encounters and how it attempted to discredit him by spreading reports about his love life after he refused to break off his friendship with a suspected Communist agent...
...assured that the emissaries they met were acting with Reagan's authority, and so they demanded arms transfers that only the President could authorize. Perhaps so. But it is also possible that what they were really doing was subjecting the U.S. to a crude form of blackmail...
...partisans dead. The Post quoted Gerold Christian, a Waldheim spokesman, as saying that an earlier statement in which the Austrian leader denied he was in the province "was incorrect." In a separate article, the newspaper reported that in 1947 and 1948 Yugoslav and Soviet operatives had tried to blackmail Waldheim into becoming a Communist agent by threatening to accuse him of war crimes...