Word: blackmailer
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...Attorney General in 1971, publicly suggested that Congress investigate the operation of the FBI. Angered, Hoover telephoned Kleindienst and threatened to reveal those embarrassing taps. No further move against Hoover was made by either Nixon, Mitchell or Kleindienst. Explained a Justice Department official: "Hoover used those wiretap authorizations to blackmail the Nixon Administration. As long as he had the papers [documenting the taps], they couldn...
...decision withstands planned appeals, Eisen's class action is finished, and so, too, are virtually all other similar mass suits. Noting that many such suits had been brought as "legalized blackmail" to force settlements from companies unwilling to face the cost or risk of fighting the actions, Federal Judge Harold Medina, who wrote the decision, called it "a landmark." Replied Mark Green, a legal activist who works with Ralph Nader: "I'd call it a land mine...
...sexually untroubled. Otherwise, what often happens is that already disturbed couples find they cannot function sexually when watched. That upsets them further, and their performance in private becomes even more unsatisfying. In some clinics, clients are even filmed engaged in both homosexual and heterosexual acts-thus becoming vulnerable to blackmail...
...distant and unstable region. In his forthcoming message to Congress on the energy crisis, he is expected to ask for funds to develop other sources of energy-coal, shale-oil deposits, chemical substitutes and solar and atomic power-in a hurry. "The time to start worrying about Arab blackmail," says one veteran of the Middle Eastern oil business, "is when the Arabs tell you not to worry about blackmail...
Tragically for the men involved, such kidnapings carry their own catch-22: the more governments give in to save the victims, the more frequent they become. Ceding to blackmail demands, Nixon insisted last week, was unthink able. The threat, he said harshly but realistically, was "a risk that an ambassador has to take...