Word: blackmailings
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...everyone in this play gets what he wants only through deceit or treachery, not least of all Fairfax, who uses his good looks and gentlemanly heroic manner to impress every man and enrapture any woman who crosses his path. In this world, marriages are contracted via the forces of blackmail, not true love, and the essential work of all involved--seeing to the imprisonment, torture and execution of prisoners of the crown--is never questioned...
...industry executives are concerned about security. They fear that addicts on the payroll might sell defense secrets to support their habits. Moreover, because criminal narcotics-possession charges could lead to the loss of security clearances necessary for many jobs in the defense industry, drug abusers are extremely vulnerable to blackmail. Says R. Richard Heppe, the president of Lockheed California: "We do a lot of highly classified work here, and people with these problems are much higher security risks...
...episode filmed yesterday focuses on a fictional Harvard chemistry professor developing synthetic narcotics for biochemical research. Under threat of blackmail by organized crime sources eager to use her research for criminal means, the professor enlists Spenser...
...jury roundly rejected the prosecution's lurid allegations of foreign, presumably KGB, blackmail against the servicemen for taking part in homosexual activity and sex orgies. As it turned out, much of the evidence in the case was, as one prosecutor put it, "contaminated by half-truths and shot through with utter lies." A Cyprus hotel where a sex party was said to have taken place, for example, had not yet been built at the time of the alleged incident. One of the servicemen was in the Falkland Islands when he was said to have been taking part in the Cyprus...
...think Israel will give in to this kind of blackmail and I don't think they should," said Henry Rosovsky, Geyser University Professor and leader of the American Jewish Congress, a national lobbying organization...