Word: blackmailed
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Eagleburger had yet to be confirmed by the Senate as Assistant Secretary of State, and Pillsbury threatened to use his influence with conservative Republicans to block the confirmation. The attempted blackmail did not work; Eagleburger approved the statement anyway, and Pillsbury was soon dismissed from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency by the White House. He went back to Capitol Hill, where he has continued to work against Eagleburger and other Administration moderates, work against Eagleburger and other Administration moderates...
Testimony in the trial of Alexandra V. Gaetan a former Tufts University lecturer accused of raping an Extension School student and forcing her to join him in a plot to blackmail a harvard professor, began Wednesday in Middlesex Superior Court...
...accused Gaetan of raping her and threatening her with further injury if she didn't comply with his blackmail plot...
...bedded one of his therapists and received his first hints of the interna tional conspiracy that will preoccupy him for the rest of this loose-jointed remake of Thunderball. Once again, the scenario has something to do with the theft of nuclear warheads and their use as a blackmail weapon. The plot's mastermind is played with silky, neurotic charm by Klaus Maria Brandauer (so fine in Mephisto), while as his chief agent provocateur, Barbara Carrera deftly parodies all the fatal femmes who have slithered through Bond's career. And it is good to see Connery...
...MAFIA MAVENS try not to miss The Godfather when, every few years, that movie is shown on television. This summer was no exception, once again, the story unfolded about a small group of ruthless criminals who used cunning, blackmail, brutality and cold-blooded murder to seize and hold onto a vast empire of wealth and power...