Word: blackmailing
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...Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people were killed by guerrillas, most of them members of the security forces. The guerrillas kidnaped scores of businessmen, particularly foreigners, and companies such as Kodak, Exxon, Firestone and Ford paid out millions of dollars in ransom and blackmail. In the kidnaping of two scions of the Argentine trading conglomerate Bunge & Born, the guerrillas reportedly netted $60 million...
...Soviet stance. The announcement of the arms sale, no matter how small, added to tensions. In Moscow, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott that the Haig trip was "all part of a campaign of blackmail against the Soviet Union and is just further proof that the talk coming out of Washington about resuming relations is insincere...
...shall answer, "It's none of your business." That must be very clear. But the fact that they have fear concerns us, of course. It would be an important question if we were dependent on the Communists for a majority. Then they would be in a position to-blackmail may be too strong a word-but to put pressure on us. If we have the absolute majority [in parliament], Communists in or out make no difference...
Others had fewer doubts. Said one Israeli official: "I think something positive has happened to world welfare in the same way that we made a major impact on the hijacking situation at Entebbe. Today nobody gives in to hijacking blackmail. When the criticism has subsided, people will realize that you can't allow every small country, particularly like Iraq, to own the atom bomb." Said Miriam Hefetz, 29, a government secretary: "We're doing the dirty work for the rest of the world. We have nothing to be ashamed of. Somebody had to stop Iraq...
...deliver a counterattack. All the country's airbases, for example, could be taken out in a single strike. Nor can Israel afford the enormous expense of keeping warplanes in the air at all times as a deterrent to aggressors. Thus the country feels a particular vulnerability to nuclear blackmail. The Begin view: no Israeli government, or any other government in a similar position, could ever take the risk that a foe armed with atomic bombs would not use them...