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...they joined with the Christian Democrats. In lander like Hesse and Rhine-Westphalia where the Free Liberals are in the minority, a coalition with the Christian Democrats would open the way for FDP administrative posts and increased political influence. Needless to say, Genscher has used this tempting possibility to blackmail the Social Democrats for greater FDP influence in the government coalition. Genscher's gamble may backfire, however. Irritated by the FDP's maneuvers, Schmidt warned the Free Liberals that if they became too demanding, he would not exclude the possibility of forming a coalition with the Christian Democrats...

Author: By Dennis Kloske, | Title: Will Germans Always be Germans? | 8/17/1976 | See Source »

...Monckton, wants to see all of the CIA's top-secret files. Martin has to stall Monckton so he won't see the secret report on the South American invasion. The pressure mounts. Only by collecting conclusive evidence that the president approved illegal break-ins and wiretappings can Martin blackmail Monckton...

Author: By Gregory F. Lawless, | Title: No News Is Agnews | 8/6/1976 | See Source »

...collaborated with the terrorists and who have aided and abetted them." Israel was "proud" of the Entebbe raid, not only because it had saved the lives of 104 hostages but also because it had demonstrated "to the world that there is an alternative to surrender to terrorism and to blackmail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: After Entebbe: Showdown in New York | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...World. In simplest terms, the play hangs on a purse string. The superannuated but insatiably lustful Lady Wishfort (Jessica Tandy) controls a fortune and has an itch for the philanderer Mirabel (Jeremy Brett). He, in turn, has fallen in love with her niece Millamant (Maggie Smith) and schemes to blackmail Lady Wishfort in order to secure her consent to his marriage to Millamant. That is just about what happens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Canada's Dramatic Lodestar | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...once forged a cable linking Kennedy personally to the political murder of Viet Nam President Ngo Dinh Diem. How much more convenient to revive a similar charge in fiction, transferring it to Rio de Muerte - and to imply that through a tortuous trail of Democratic cover-up and CIA blackmail, the road came back to Watergate. Timothy Foote

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modified, Limited Hangout | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

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