Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leniency toward Abdallah. According to Le Canard, the deal was scotched when the U.S. intervened with a civil suit against Abdallah for his suspected role in the 1982 murder of the U.S. military attache. Chirac denied that his government had ever negotiated with the F.A.R.L. "I am allergic to blackmail and to terrorism," he said...
...came only four days after another bomb had ripped through a crowded post office at Paris' city hall, killing one person and wounding 18 others. Amid a wave of minor and apparently unrelated bombings across Western Europe last week, Paris remained the center of a brutal game of terrorist blackmail...
...surveillance is often ludicrously obvious, possibly it is meant to be. Fear can be as effective as blackmail. But intimidation can cut both ways. One memorable January evening a few years ago, four American correspondents attended a farewell party for a refusenik who had at long last received permission to emigrate to Israel. When they left the celebration, the reporters were surrounded by a gang of men -- obvious KGB agents, judging by their suits, overcoats and good fur hats. The agents cursed and shoved the journalists, sending two of them sprawling into the curbside snow. As the shaken reporters picked...
...study of the "nature and extent" of all goods moving across the border. Decrying what he called the "hysterical stampede" against South Africa, Botha challenged Mugabe and Kaunda to "put their money where their mouth is and introduce comprehensive sanctions against this country." Zambia condemned Pretoria's action as "blackmail and intimidation." Mugabe, on his return to Zimbabwe, told his countrymen to brace themselves for hard times. "All thought of luxury and comfort will have to go," he said. "It is just like...
...form of official blackmail, the Pretoria government has been threatening to take reprisals against its black neighboring countries if sanctions get too severe. It is in a solid position to do so. Nearly all foreign trade for Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland passes through South Africa, as well as 90% of Zimbabwe's. Some 350,000 foreign workers are legally employed in South Africa, almost 85% of them in mining, and they could be fired. Many of its neighbors are dependent on South Africa for electricity, which could be cut. Pretoria, however, rarely mentions the benefits it gains from these relations...