Word: extortionate
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Setting up an observation post on the top floor of a high school across the street from the junkyard, police compiled a staggering mass of evidence. The bugging device provided more than 300 miles of tape-recorded conversations. Telephone wiretaps produced an additional 21,600 ft. of tape, and 36...
"Taxation is extortion. We oppose it because it's forced. Government needs very little money if it restricts itself to maintaining a police force, national defense, and courts of law. And people will voluntarily support values they believe in," Nathan said. She referred to the Catholic Church's financial success...
Guerrilla groups, bandits and freelance psychopaths in unpredictable varieties have been staging ever more spectacular outrages since 1968, when some enterprising Palestinians pioneered modern-day political extortion by forcing an El Al jet down in Algeria and negotiating the release of 16 Arabs from Israeli jails in return for the...
Since August 1969, when it freed 71 imprisoned Arabs at the behest of some guerrillas who seized a Tel Aviv-bound TWA jet with 113 aboard and took it to Damascus, Israel has been the leading advocate of the nononsense, no-negotiations approach. With some 500 Arab guerrillas crowding its...
The argument against acquiescence is persuasive. Still, there is little to suggest that the tough Israeli approach has discouraged terrorists. Tel Aviv's uncompromising stance did not dissuade a Palestinian guerrilla team from seizing a Sabena jet with 90 passengers at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport last...