Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...expansionist ambitions. The U.S. considers him an international outlaw and has accused him of meddling in no fewer than 45 nations. When Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre were looking for a villain to cast as the mastermind of a plot to hold New York City up for nuclear blackmail in their novel The Fifth Horseman, they naturally settled upon Gaddafi...
...attacked Western Europe. After the U.S. lost clear superiority in intercontinental (or "strategic") weapons, probably around 1970, and now that it may have lost even parity, the message is more clouded. Europeans increasingly doubt that any man in the Oval Office, in the face of some Soviet diplomatic-military blackmail move, would really risk all of the urban U.S. "to save Rotterdam." (For some reason Rotterdam has become the preferred metaphor, perhaps because Dutch attitudes toward NATO are so spongy.) Recent U.S. Presidents have declined, as they must, to relieve Soviet uncertainties on this point. Henry Kissinger, out of office...
...plot grinds on, involving a murder that Bone has been a partial witness to. Bone suspects that a wealthy oil man mighthave done the slaying, and Cutter--claiming the world is short on heroes and with the victims's sister as an accomplice--sets out to ensnare, via blackmail, the oil man. All of this is seen through Bone's eyes, and the uncertainty he has about his own testimony makes the who whodunit air tenuous. Maybe it's all just Cutter's fantasy. Maybe life can be a detective movie. Maybe they're all victims of fantasy. Bone...