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...Amounts to Blackmail." But this time Carl Hayden was apparently a mite impatient. Once Aspinall was out of town, Hayden blandly asked his colleagues on the Appropriations Committee if they saw anything wrong with attaching the Central Arizona Project as a rider to the $4.7 billion public-works bill-the "pork barrel" package on its way to the Senate floor. Of course not, said the committee...
Many of the surveillance devices are in extremely wide use. Businesses spy on assembly-line workers and executives alike. Colleges listen in on dormitory rooms. Blackmail-minded brothel owners look in on their customers. Police hunt homosexuals with ceiling cameras installed in men's rest rooms. Cops also bug hoods, while hoods bug cops. Some towns have experimented with closed-circuit TV cameras on the streets; using street lights, police can watch at night for crimes. District attorneys have been known to record lawyer-defendant conferences, and everyone believes that everyone's wiretapping everyone else in Washington...
...they are a gentler people than the Vietnamese and have no colonial history to rebel against, the Thais are largely unresponsive to Communist canards about "imperialism." They do not readily respond to promises of new tractors, loans and a better life. The Reds are often forced to try such blackmail tactics as getting up a shopping list of a village's needs, getting the people to sign it, then a week later claiming that the list has fallen into government hands. The whole village, the Reds say, will go to prison unless it accepts Communist "protection." Sometimes, the guerrillas...
...countries which wants big power guarantees against nuclear blackmail in exchange for renouncing nukes is India, which worries openly about China's bomb. West Germany and Italy have strong reservations about the proposed inspection of nuclear-power reactors to assure that fuels are not diverted to weaponry. They want EURATOM, not the International Atomic Energy Agency,* to be their watchdog. They are worried that Communist nations in l.A.E.A. might take the opportunity to steal advanced industrial secrets. West Germany also vehemently opposes the absence of a time limit in the treaty. The Germans argue that it should be tried...
Though the Normans were experts at "piracy, perjury, robbery, rape, blackmail and murder," as Norwich puts it, they were also uncommonly gentle conquerors. In all of their exploits, they proved less interested in imposing their own customs on their captives than in adopting the ways-not to mention the possessions-of those they had subdued. Little more than a century's residence in France sufficed to erase the maritime traditions of what was once a seagoing Viking people. In Norman Sicily, says Norwich, the victors "created a climate of enlightened political and religious thinking in which all races, creeds...