Word: blackmailing
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...people pay $500 and little people pay $200." To pressure Martinez, says Specter, Ellick granted two postponements, demanded $75 from the actual bar owner, finally sent the man before a grand jury, which refused to indict him. Magistrate Ellick himself was indicted last March for extortion, bribery and blackmail...
...giver-getter relationship. Only the naive among the givers expect lavish thanks; only the naive among the getters darkly suspect concealed U.S. motives. The U.S. now knows that arm twisting by withdrawing aid rarely works-and it usually knows better than to let foreign governments attempt aid-or-else blackmail. Moreover, the U.S. has backed away from any grandiose dreams of remaking the world; receiving nations nonetheless candidly want a large helping of U.S. machines, techniques and comforts...
...that the purpose of foreign aid is to help nations secure economic and political independence, and then resort to petty blackmail when they assert their independence? If our form of government and our economic system are truly great, we should permit others to test our noble intentions...
UNDERGROUND and in open combat, by subversion, terrorism, blackmail, riot and rhetoric, faithful Communists the world over have for decades waged a holy war against the rest of humanity. The tempo and techniques vary from era to era, from continent to continent. And the nature of Communism changes. Whereas Moscow now shuns the perilous confrontations that so often brought the cold war to boiling point, Peking grows ever more militant. For both capitals of world Communism, the focal points of conflict have shifted from Europe to Africa, Latin America and-most notably-Southeast Asia, where the Johnson Administration last week...
...Hogan, 63, disclosed that the DeLong ruby had wound up in the hands of some Miami usurers. They were asking $21,000 ransom, and at first Frank Hogan agreed. But 48 hours later, the D.A. snorted, "My office will not be used as an instrument in a ransom or blackmail deal like this." All of which leaves Murph the Surf and his two friends serving three-year jail terms and the DeLong ruby still missing, along with 14 other stones...