Word: blackmailing
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...extending support to Hoffmann's plan in principle, one is not necessarily endorsing all of his conclusions. His direct implication that many who support Israel have used the Nazi holocaust as political blackmail is unfair. Those Israelis who speak of the Holocaust of European Jewry in the context of the current crisis, do so, for the most part, not to be awarded the moral right to do anything they please, but to remind the world that their fears are not without historical foundation, a reminder sorely needed...
...same tortures as the bloodthirsty murderer. If Nixon were to play George, he wouldn't simply neglect his girlfriend, his customers, and his associates for the transient pleasure of a good lay; he would place a tape recorder under the bed, to record the groans as evidence for possible blackmail. The reality of Orange County is not simply the flashy cars, the bright lights, the shiny mirrors of George's Los Angeles. It is the Orange County of economic privilege and social elitism that make possible the ascendancy of men like Richard Nixon to the Presidency. That life-style, that...
Competition among arms exporters is often cutthroat. Secrecy and deception become second nature as some weapons salesmen, in ways that seem to have more in common with international espionage than commerce, try to embarrass, discredit and even blackmail their competition...
...time its property was invaded, the order was in the final stages of negotiating an agreement to lease the abbey to another group of Indians. The Menominee hotheads who simply moved in were in fact initially condemned by their tribal elders. But in the end revolutionary rhetoric and the blackmail of violence prevailed...
...confirming the existence of the files on Congressmen. FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley later denied that the information had been misused. But many on Capitol Hill suspected otherwise. Said Democratic Senator Gale McGee of Wyoming: "Obviously, it's to be held in reserve for some kind of blackmail." That apparently was not the case. Said one FBI man: "What Hoover did with that stuff may have been improper, but it certainly wasn't blackmail." It is known that Hoover often regaled Presidents and other high Government officials with salacious tidbits about Congressmen. On occasion, he also leaked damaging...