Word: blackmailing
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...chiller about blackmail...
...this winter only four weeks after publication. (The book will be published in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster in July.) Co-Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre (Is Paris Burning?, O Jerusalem) have so convincingly interwoven fact and fiction that the details of civilization's vulnerability to nuclear blackmail appear totally realistic...
...most hair-raising detail is the revelation that there have actually been more than 50 attempts at nuclear blackmail in the U.S.; that figure is confirmed by Washington officials, although they note that all were hoaxes or extortion attempts and that no nuclear device was ever involved. The authors claim that one of the blackmail ploys, supposedly hatched by Palestinians, forced President Gerald Ford in the spring of 1974 to consider the evacuation of Boston. Officials in Boston and Washington admit that Ford did know of such a threat, but that they never could identify who was behind...
Here guards and administrators steal money and food from patients, allowing some patients to run their own corrupt businesses, while beating others incessantly. They stage human cockfights for amusement and blackmail their patient-slaves into cruel homosexual and sadistic acts. Perversely pushing and taunting their victims to the limit of their endurance, the guards would wait till their victims lashed out, only to be "kicked and stomped" to jellied unconsciousness or pumped full of a zombie's dosage of Thorazine or Mellaril. Medication to keep them out of the way, out of sight and out of mind; under control...
...result of White House policy, "anti-Soviet hysteria is virtually raging in the U.S.," said Leonid Zamyatin, chief of the International Information Department of the Central Committee. Speaking on Soviet television last week, Zamyatin declared that America's "economic and political blackmail" of the U.S.S.R. stemmed from Carter's desperate bid for reelection. "In order to score points as a presidential candidate, Carter decided to distract American attention from domestic problems by creating international tensions," charged Zamyatin, who is one of President Leonid Brezhnev's chief foreign policy advisers...