Word: blackmailer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...result, the West Europeans have imposed a bit of linkage of their own. They have said they will cooperate with the U.S. in upgrading NATO's nuclear defenses only if the U.S. simultaneously pursues arms control agreements. Hard-liners in the Reagan Administration may smell a scent of blackmail there, yet the hard fact remains that the U.S. could restore a much needed degree of transatlantic calm if its fair-weather allies were not quite so nervously eyeing the thunderheads over Soviet-American relations. With calm restored, the U.S. might then be able to reassert the strong leadership...
...number of steps that could reduce the exposure of Western Europe to the threat of energy blackmail are now being discussed. Storage caverns like those in Italy could be filled as a security reserve. Production in some currently producing gasfields in The Netherlands might be cut back to retain the fuel for emergency use. Factories and generating plants could be fitted with dual-capacity burners that would use both gas and oil. Joseph Nye, a Harvard government professor who has closely studied the pipeline deal, says that if such steps are taken, "energy dependence would not necessarily mean vulnerability...
...riddled with half-crazy governments." This view is also heard abroad, though mostly in nongovernmental circles. The Swiss newspaper Journal de Genève asserts that the agreement "suggests to the entire world that it is possible to change the direction of U.S. policy through acts of terrorism and blackmail." French Political Commentator Edouard Sablier observes: "Of course it was ransom. By definition, ransom is anything that has to be paid to secure the release of a captured person." The critics attack some specific parts of the agreement, notably the provision that Americans with claims against Iran cannot...
...there doesn't seem any way of getting them out, and when you can get them out at the expense of releasing assets which belong to Iran anyway, I think that's a right move. I would not agree that the Americans have given in to blackmail." The West German response has been similar. What dismayed Europeans most about the hostage crisis was the same thing that most dismayed and shocked the American public-the terrible failure of the helicopter rescue mission. On the whole, however, U.S. restraint has been regarded as admirable by its allies...
little virtuous blackmail. Everything considered, a library may be a safer investment, even if its name is Mudd...