Word: blackmailings
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...approach. With some 500 Arab guerrillas crowding its jails (only Nazi war crimes rate the death penalty in Israel), Israelis argue that the present rash of hijackings and other extortion attempts would quickly become a galloping plague if they answered threats to hostages by releasing prisoners. "We believe that blackmail leads only to more blackmail," says an Israeli foreign-ministry official. "If we release 250 prisoners today that will only encourage the terrorists to demand more prisoners tomorrow. And what would stop them from asking for political ransom? They could kidnap Israelis somewhere in the world and demand that...
...share of TV and film rights, Fischer at the last minute demanded a 30% cut of the gate receipts. While Boris waited in Reykjavik, Bobby went into hiding in New York City and played a waiting game. The U.S.S.R. Chess Federation denounced his sulking as "blackmail" and "a crying violation of the rules without parallel in the history of any sports competition...
...Blackmail. Bailley's troubles grew out of his activities with Astrid Lee-flang, an old flame. While she was a student at the University of Maryland, Bailley brought her to his Washington apartment for drinks. Soon Bailley introduced the girl, whom he affectionately refers to as "old Fling Flang," to other men. His relationship with Astrid may have been part of a pattern extending over three years. Some women have testified that Bailley would take photographs of girls in the nude with whom he spent the night and then blackmail them into prostitution...
...victory for consumers, who presumably will be spared the price boosts that a shortage would cause. Nixon knew that such boosts would damage his anti-inflation campaign. Still, the quota increase underscores the growing U.S. dependence on overseas oil supplies that could be shut off by wars or political blackmail...
...Hoover was a vital part of anti-communist hysteria from the beginning. For nearly half a century he warned Congress and the public about communists hiding under their beds. They shuddered, and he combined their fear with adroit use of influence and blackmail and built his FBI into an empire, an uncontrollable superagency which is already far down the road to being a national political police force...