Word: blackmailing
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...Scranton is firmly opposed, insists that the money must be used to finance new aids to education and similar projects. The Governor's demands that the lawmakers act promptly on reapportionment or see the G.O.P.-dominated State Supreme Court act for them brought cries of political blackmail from the floor of the legislature. Scranton, who is ineligible to succeed himself, was in a fighting mood. Said he: "The history of our state, as we all know, is replete with instances in which the second half of an administration becomes a poaching ground for unscrupulous politicians.This is not going...
...little about another military development-last week's start of the first regular patrol of China Sea waters by a U.S. Polaris-packing, nuclear-fueled submarine, the Daniel Boone, first of seven slated to cruise off crucial Asiatic shores. Peking Radio denounced Boone's stalking as "nuclear blackmail" and "naked war provocation." Whatever the sub's duty was called, its presence would doubtless make Peking's masters more prudent in rattling their own crude atomic device...
...game of blackmail," Hoffmann said. "Among friends, of course...
...counter Red China's war of ideas. These ideas really boil down to: get rid of the foreigners and let Communism give you a better life. Successful though this crude approach is in Asia, it has yet to work anywhere without the accompaniment of subversion, political infighting, blackmail and the threat of force. From the time that Chiang Kai-shek was fighting the Communists for his life down to the present crisis in Viet...
...Jenkins stated that no attempt had ever been made to compromise or blackmail him. He also told the FBI he would lay down his life before he would disclose any information that would damage the best interests of the United States...