Word: blackmailing
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...Cairo interview with TIME Correspondent William Marmon, Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy accused the Israelis of bad faith: "They are always like this. They want to bargain-on every level and in every direction. They link everything to what they can get from the U.S. and this is blackmail. They know they must be out of the passes, but they want a price. They are trying to gain time. They are looking at the internal situation in the U.S. trying to figure out if Ford is the strong man, if Kissinger can last, if the Congress will respond to their tactics...
Ford called the compromise "a fair and equitable solution," but anti-aid, pro-Greece Congressmen remained bitterly opposed. Indiana Democrat John Brademas charged that approval by the House would amount to "capitulating to a form of blackmail of the U.S. Government." Turkey has threatened to close U.S. military bases if aid is not resumed this week. The Administration insisted that lifting the embargo is the only way to create a negotiating climate in which the U.S. can help achieve a Cyprus settlement. Turkey has indicated that it will not enter serious negotiations so long as it is under pressure from...
...interim agreement by no means should give the feeling that under the threats of war and oil embargo, the U.S. can put pressure on Israel to accept all that the Egyptians want. That would only be an invitation for increased blackmail. The way to cope with it is to show Egypt that [it] cannot achieve everything it wants...
...plans to hold to its rulebook. The presence of homosexuals in the service, it argues, could impair recruitment; other young men might feel anxious about living in close quarters with them. In addition, Defense Department officials contend, homosexuals cannot command respect as officers or noncoms and are prey to blackmailers. Replies Matlovich, who had top-secret clearance in the 1960s while working as an electrician on Minutemen ICBM silos: "Who's going to blackmail...
...spent a year and a half in cruel conditions of investigation custody, before being brought to trial. His conduct was exceptionally courageous and he failed to give in to the psychological blackmail or to the physical torments inflicted by the Czechoslovak secret police. Equally courageous was his behavior when facing the court in the summer of 1971. He refused to testify or to participate in its pre-arranged farcical proceedings. He was sentenced to two years in prison...