Word: blackmailer
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Easy Virtue--Tuesday at 5 p.m.; with Blackmail at 8 p.m.; Carpenter Center...
...serves as encouragement to the Soviet Union and other repressive regimes to act aggressively. It does not consider the conventional advantage the Soviets would have in the event of nuclear disarmament, nor does it seem frightened by the specter of other countries with nuclear capabilities, such as Libya, using blackmail to further their interests...
...Early in the week, authorities declared that Solidarity's walkout "would be met with actions commensurate with the threat." A group of party hard-liners raised the chilling possibility of "shedding fraternal blood." Moreover, the Soviet news agency TASS reported that "counterrevolutionary" forces were using the strike to "blackmail" the Warsaw regime...
...appropriated for Israel in an escrow account, to be paid out only if "genuine progress" is made in the autonomy talks, and withheld as a penalty if Israel sanctions new settlements on the West Bank. This Administration has a multitude of means available to it, short of such blackmail, to make known its views to Israel. No Israeli government ever has been, or conceivably ever could be, blind to the views of an American President, whose friendship and support is vital. The Reagan Administration believes, from all the President and Secretary of State Alexander Haig have said to date, that...
After 45 years in thriller country, Eric Ambler is still the master of murk. Ironic, cerebral, smooth as vintage port, he has created an all-too-familiar world of doublecross and blackmail where the heroes are unheroic and the villains almost likable. The Care of Time is quintessential Ambler from the very first sentence: "The warning message arrived on Monday, the bomb itself on Wednesday. It became a busy week...