Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...generally invited public discussion only after policy decisions have been made. Nonetheless, some environmentalists viewed the new approach as the kind of morbid cost-benefit analysis they have long opposed. Western Washington University Professor Ruth Weiner said that asking the community to determine what is best is "economic blackmail. People will vote for jobs and cancer." Warned Richard Ayres, head of the National Clean Air Coalition: "You're balancing money and lives, and they just don't balance...
...particular, Sakharov insists that nuclear arms reductions, which he considers supremely important, should be used to preserve or restore "parity" at all levels of nuclear weaponry: tactical, "regional" and intercontinental. The reason: an aggressor who had an advantage in one category of weapons might be tempted to try nuclear blackmail, and "there would be little cause for joy if, ultimately, the aggressor's hopes proved false and the aggressor country perished along with the rest of mankind." Thus, Sakharov regretfully rejects the idea of a nuclear freeze because it would leave the Soviet Union with a huge lead...
...that would detach itself from the U.S., it would help them impose a solution in Eastern Europe." He wondered if the SS-20 program was simply the mechanistic reflex of the Soviet military establishment or part of a longer-term political strategy. If Moscow's aim is political blackmail, he said, then Western Europe should begin to brace for a period of high East-West tension after the deployment of NATO's own intermediate-range missiles...