Word: blackmailing
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...that made them very interested to shut me up. I think the blackmail aspect of going into the doctor's office is particularly interesting to them. That was important, and it was the only way they could do it short of killing me. They didn't get to that point until they got very close to the mining of Haiphong...
Under rough cross-examination by Mitchell's attorney, William Hundley, Hunt refused to characterize his demands for money as either "extortion" or "blackmail." Asked Hundley sarcastically: "What was it, investment planning?" Showing a secret agent's preference for euphemisms, Hunt insisted that he was merely making a "reiteration of requests for keeping commitments . . . in the tradition of a bill collector." Defense attorneys pounced on a reference in early galleys of Hunt's book to what he described as attempts by Ben-Veniste to get him to give false testimony. According to Hunt, this occurred when Ben-Veniste...
...ISRAEL AND THE OIL CRISIS: The Israelis are trying to use what is called the energy crisis for blackmail. They are trying to convince the West that they can be the spearhead of what is called the military solution...
...Middle East oil. At the same time, two huge studies struck a note of surprising long-range optimism, at least so far as the U.S. is concerned. Their overall conclusion: by 1985 the nation can sharply reduce its reliance on foreign oil and make itself reasonably immune to energy blackmail-and with fewer wrenching changes in living habits than have been generally assumed...
Something old, something new-or newer, anyway. A dotty old bomb expert concocts a superbomb that he uses to blackmail an entire city. About 20 years ago it was called Seven Days to Noon. The city was London, and the scientist attempting to stop construction of atomic weapons threatened everyone with thermonuclear destruction if his demands were not met. In the movie's own stiff and militaristic terms, this was enough to establish the scientist's madness. Preparedness was quite the thing back then, and anyone who wanted to stop the arms race was probably round the bend...