Word: blackmailer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muskie told TIME Congressional Correspondent Neil MacNeil: "In terms of the violation of international are entitled to nothing. We could be involved in this kind of standoff for the indefinite future unless, without submitting to blackmail, we can put together a package that builds on the pressures they must feel-the internal fragmentation, their worsening economy, the incursions on their borders...
...people. President Banisadr announced that he was prepared to allow the hostages in London to be killed rather than accept the demands of the terrorists. Said he: "We are ready to accept the martyrdom of our children in England, but we will not give in to blackmail...
...when, as a State Department photographer, she took his picture before he went overseas. He began writing regularly but said nothing about marriage. Keke eventually wrote that she was about to marry someone else, which was not true. Says she now: "It was a little innocent blackmail." Anderson cabled, KEKE WOULD YOU STILL COME TO ME? Shewired back, DARLING INTERPRET WORDS AS PROPOSAL, and asked him to sendmoney. He did. Keke today is an ebullient woman of 48 who pinches and flirts with Anderson, advises him on everything from how to comb his hair to political strategy-she really persuaded...
...happen to agree with President Carter that the danger to our country is the gravest in the modern period," said Kissinger. "We are sliding toward a world out of control, with our relative military power declining, with our economic lifeline increasingly vulnerable to blackmail, with hostile radical forces growing in every continent, and with the number of countries willing to stake their future on our friendship dwindling." To reverse these trends, said Kissinger, the U.S. must grapple with four interrelated issues...
...small country, could find itself reliant on a single country for perhaps as much as half its oil deliveries. But the amount might equal no more than a tiny fraction of the producing nation's total exports." European Community officials warn that France and other governments risk "political blackmail" by OPEC members, who may demand payoffs like recognition of the Palestine Liberation Organization as well as top dollar for oil. With their citizens freezing or deprived of gasoline during some future energy crisis, governments would doubtless be under extreme pressure to make concessions in Middle East politics. Warns...