Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jury roundly rejected the prosecution's lurid allegations of foreign, presumably KGB, blackmail against the servicemen for taking part in homosexual activity and sex orgies. As it turned out, much of the evidence in the case was, as one prosecutor put it, "contaminated by half-truths and shot through with utter lies." A Cyprus hotel where a sex party was said to have taken place, for example, had not yet been built at the time of the alleged incident. One of the servicemen was in the Falkland Islands when he was said to have been taking part in the Cyprus...
...think Israel will give in to this kind of blackmail and I don't think they should," said Henry Rosovsky, Geyser University Professor and leader of the American Jewish Congress, a national lobbying organization...
...overthrow the Sandinista government. Chamorro, who carried out his mission from exile in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and Key Biscayne, Fla., revealed that he had been picked for his job by the CIA. The agency, he disclosed, had printed training manuals instructing the guerrillas in such activities as assassination, kidnaping and blackmail. For that revelation he was ejected from the contras. Now the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service wants to expel Chamorro from the country. Two weeks ago, the New York Times printed an op-ed article by Chamorro in which he criticized the Reagan Administration's policies toward Nicaragua and congressional...
Mark Snyder insisted that Laura's story was "a bunch of garbage." He denied having known of her father's spying or having made any blackmail threats. He contended that Laura knew of Christopher's whereabouts and had been free to visit...
...frequently attacked Papandreou for failing to remove four U.S. military bases from Greece (the leases for the facilities, which are important for NATO's Mediterranean defense, come up for renewal in December 1988). Papandreou's triumph guaranteed that, as a French analyst put it, "there can be no Communist blackmail...