Word: blackmailing
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Therefore, if Latin America has not absorbed the artificial economics lesson that the faltering development of Cuba is intended to teach, our policy of isolation looks like nothing more than blackmail. Blackmail in this case is not just diplomatically offensive; it is ineffective. Its usefulness depends on the failure of Cuba, and Cuba will not fail; the island will not crumble and fall into the sea, and so long as the U.S. has some control over its people's hunger, it will continue to be an issue. It will widen the splits between left and right in the hemisphere...
Dutifully plodding through standard Navy procedures in a detective-storylike narrative, he slowly comes face to face with a mother's grief, a Negro steward's blackmail of the dead officer, and the Navy's distaste for the bad publicity that his investigation seems likely to bring, pressure develops to cut the investigation short and just report "suicide, causes unknown," Marks fights back out of the simplest of motives-he is angry at being pushed around. But when both Navy and lawyers back down, the lieutenant triumphantly becomes commander of the situation, only to learn the moral...
...Germans are also running into a new variation of the familiar neutralist blackmail (i.e., "If you don't help us, we'll go Communist"). It is: "Help us or we'll recognize the East German regime." Equipment supplied by the West Germans is first-rate-in fact, sometimes too complicated for the limited skills of the recipients. When Bonn built a steel plant at Rourkela. India, there were simply not enough local people to run it, and so far it has worked at far below capacity...
...Gaulle implied, for the task of constitutional reform that would make a strong executive a permanent feature of French life. As for the "last bloody clouds" caused by the terrorism of the Secret Army Organization, they would soon disappear, together with the S.A.O. strategy of "assassination, theft and blackmail." Frenchmen, sickened by the seven-year war in Algeria and by the S.A.O.'s senseless brutality, could only hope that De Gaulle was right-even though the "bloody clouds" appeared to last longer than many political weather forecasters had predicted. If the battle was already lost for the S.A.O...
...these gentle leaves tramps the hero, Sewell Smith, home from writing a bestselling novel and determined to take revenge on the town elders who long ago did in his daddy. What luck! All the elders have slept with the town's 14-year-old nymphomaniac. Smith plots to blackmail them on a statutory rape charge, and the novel is soon awash with sex and violence. The ancient Greeks knew the value of restraint; Oedipus' crime was the more horrible because it was the only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody...