Word: blackmailed
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...more independence, restoring a greater role for the parties, shortening the length of the campaign, reducing the importance of the primaries, and deflating the influence of special-interest groups. Says John Sears: "This is a horrible system, a terrible system. Under the current arrangement, single-issue groups can essentially blackmail a candidate." Agrees Bob Strauss: "When national conventions are dominated by single-issue groups, the conventions don't represent America...
...Blackmail, suspicious moves and abject surrender arouse anger and protest...
Thus in an era when political skyjackings had seemed to be declining, a trio of determined gunmen brought that brand of political blackmail back to the forefront of world attention - and proved that it could work. The incident continued to have ominous repercussions long after the last hostage had returned to the welcoming embrace of his family. It heightened international tensions, sparked a hot row between Washington and Moscow, and raised widespread fears of a possible new wave of hijackings. Warned Alitalia Security Chief Aristide Manopulo: "This could lead to a full-scale return to international air terrorism. The Pakistan...
...that she is beautiful, but how can black be beautiful if the standard of beauty is to be white, blond, fair? How can black be good if cleanliness (whiteness) is next to godliness, if Satan is the Prince of Darkness, if there are blackguards and blackmail, black thoughts and black deeds? To be in the dark is one thing, but to see the light is quite another. Images of whiteness can be terrible too, of course (the white whale, whited sepulchers, death on a pale horse), but these are fairly concrete things compared with the general designation of black...
...bacchanal funded (and photographed) by the Soviet secret police. But just hours after arriving in the small city of Rovno (pop. 167,000), sources say, Holbrook's traveling companion-a fellow U.S. Army attaché-was drugged, and Holbrook himself obliged to fend off an incipient blackmail scheme. The uncompromised pah- returned to Moscow immediately. In keeping with U.S. procedure in such matters, Holbrook was whisked back to the U.S., his 21-month-old assignment to the Soviet Union at an abrupt and curious...