Word: blackmailing
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...protest was prompted by accusations of blackmail and espionage made last month by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia against Marshall Shulman, an associate of Harvard's Russian Research Center. Schulman at the time was on a month-long visit to Moscow to discuss disarmament problems with Russian academic circles...
Peking's engineers on the new system's range and reliability would put Tokyo, Taipei, Manila, Saigon and New Delhi within Chinese striking radius (see map). But any move to strike-or blackmail-those capitals would have to take into consideration the U.S. capacity for retaliation, ranging from simple, non-nuclear bombing power, to missile-borne holocaust...
Schulman, who has been studying disarmament theories among scholars in Moscow for the past three weeks, was accused by the Soviet government newspaper Izvestia last Saturday of attempting to brainwash and blackmail a Soviet scholar at Harvard in 1964 into defecting to the United States. Schulman denied the charges...
...wealthy, illegitimate, weak, gullible, and queer. He is victimized as a matter of course. His first tormentor, his mother aside, is a nightclub singer named Lily Vail who gets him to marry her so that she can divorce him, thereby gaining fame via scandal and fortune via alimony and blackmail. He is later a victim of a sculptress whom he commissions to create an enormous "Ritualistic Orgy of the Titans" in front of his desert home; her American Indian husband, who convinces Norman that he should raise goats for fun and profit; a mystic who receives no comprehensible messages from...
...works. As part of the celebration, Peking released a color film of China's three nuclear explosions. The Chinese achievement, said the narrator, would "smash the nuclear blackmail" of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The credit for the blasts went, of course, to Mao, whose thought "armed" the Chinese nuclear scientists...