Word: blackmailer
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...mention of Bechuanaland and turns white at the sight of a truffle. When Hesseltine is murdered by a poisoned arrow, Perelman becomes involved in his mysterious past at the behest of Hesseltine's beauteous neice, Cosima. Needless to say, Perelman solves the mystery, which involves vengeful Bushmen and blackmail of the French truffle industry, and gets the beautiful Cosima...
Those nightmares are not likely to come true, if only because it is in the Arabs'-and the Russians'-interests to keep the oil flowing. The U.S. itself is relatively immune to oil blackmail because only 3% of its supplies come from the area. Middle Eastern oil is, however, vital to U.S. interests and strategy in a broader sense. The economic well-being of NATO countries and of Japan depends upon...
...Arabs themselves, however, are not above using a little oil blackmail to raise prices, as Libya recently did. Libya is one country that enjoys a seller's market, situated as it is close to Europe, where its low-sulfur oil is much in demand. Over the past six years, Europeans have come to depend on Libya for 30% of their oil. Playing on that, the revolutionary government of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has pressured the companies to raise their posted price by 13.4% and pay the government a 5% tax surcharge. Most of the independent companies operating in Libya have...
...pirates responsible for one of the most audacious acts of political blackmail in modern times belong to a small band of Arab extremists called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Equipped only with guns and grenades, they managed to terrorize air travelers from the North Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, jeopardize a shaky truce in the Middle East, bargain for human life with some of the world's most powerful nations, and hold the entire international community at bay. In all, they detonated some $50 million worth of jet aircraft. Faced with the outrage of most...
...marked most previous air hijackings, the guerrillas refused to release the plane and all its passengers. Eventually they set free everyone except twelve Jewish men, who were held captive for five weeks until Israel agreed to hand over 16 convicted Arab terrorists "in gratitude" for the Israelis' release. The blackmail precedent had been...