Word: blackmailings
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...good thinking behind this tradition is the desire for verdicts that are uninfluenced by bribery, harassment and blackmail. Of course, the risk of improper influence is especially great when the president is on trial, as President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial demonstrated...
...Musa Arafat, the chairman's cousin, and members of Fatah, Arafat's faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization. Musa Arafat's men had ransacked a Fatah office, and the provocation touched off a furious response, fed by growing frustration with the Palestinian Authority, which has a record of torture, blackmail and rampant corruption...
...enough to make everyone pay attention. Most U.S. experts believe the nukes are under tight control so far, yet there are doubters. While it's unlikely that a military commander would see any benefit in launching one, there are other possibilities. A rogue general might try some nuclear blackmail for a big payoff. Or a nuclear unit, unpaid for months, might decide to quietly sell off something for a profit. It wouldn't have to be one of the closely guarded strategic weapons either. There are thousands of small ones and tons of fissile material lying around. Such nightmares alone...
...imperious noblewoman Macarena Bruner, whose Carmen-like beauty disturbs the celibate priest. She's the estranged wife of a banker who faces financial ruin if a sneaky real estate deal that would raze Our Lady falls through. Lurking on the sidelines are a sleazoid journalist with a bent for blackmail, and Seville's worldly archbishop, whose diocese will profit if the church is destroyed...
...arrest, said CIA Director George Tenet, "demonstrates that the U.S. government will not rest" in hunting down spies, "nor will we be intimidated by threats of blackmail." But Justice Department and CIA officials refused to explain why it took authorities almost two years to arrest Groat after he allegedly first attempted to extort money from his former employer...