Word: blackmailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shameful, but probably not all that surprising, that the Bush Administration has responded to Cristiani's blackmail with an indifference bordering on approval. Our government has obligations to defend arrested U.S. citizens abroad. But last week White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater announced: "There are clear indications of her involvement, that's for certain...It's fairly clear that those weapons were found there...
...role it plays in the military. Harvard has an explicit policy protecting the rights of gay students. The U.S. military and ROTC are in conflict with this policy because they do not allow gays, lesbians or bisexuals to join the services, claiming that we are more susceptible to blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim is simply not true. The D O D has commissioned yet a third study, indicating an inability to accept this finding...
Rodriguez, in his midafternoon address, did not accuse the United States of complicity in the revolt but said Washington had undermined his nation with "financial terrorism, economic blackmail and political interference...
...interview with Newsweek magazine, Frank also denied claims that he acknowledged he is gay because he was afraid Gobie would blackmail...
...Allen Drury published Advise and Consent, the landmark novel of backstairs intrigue on Capitol Hill, its plot remains eerily contemporary. Against the backdrop of a brutal confirmation battle reminiscent of the John Tower nomination, the 1959 novel portrays an earnest young Senator who tries in vain to resist political blackmail over a homosexual encounter in his distant past. But the Senator is driven to suicide when he learns that an unsavory syndicated columnist is about to print the politically devastating charges. A fictional Washington Post executive explains haplessly that while no responsible paper will publish the scurrilous column, "some little...