Word: extortionist
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...hardest, ugliest jobs in the police department. Single-handedly he stops a bank robbery, and when everyone else fails, he talks down a suicide attempt. Harry goes on while his partners lie dead or maimed. So naturally, he leads the search for Scorpio. San Francisco's mysterious sniper-extortionist. And after frustrating set-backs and a trail of mutilated victims--one expects nothing less--Harry gets his chance with what has become his private devil...
...correspondents in Saigon. Instead of "search and destroy," U.S. briefing officers should now say "search and clear." U.S. troop withdrawals are to be described as "U.S. redeployment" or "replacement by ARVN" (Army of the Republic of South Viet Nam). A Viet Cong tax collector should be called a V.C. extortionist. V.C. defectors are to be called ralliers...
Trying to buy peace from a totalitarian regime is analogous to dealing with an extortionist. By offering South Viet Nam, we may have peace for a short time, but we will soon find ourselves faced with the same problem again, only this time the price will be even greater...
Since the assassination riots, according to the city's public safety director, Patrick Murphy, crime is up 15%. In the worst slums, cowed businessmen reported a rash of burglaries, fires and extortionist threats. Four shopkeepers were murdered in three weeks. Most serious of all was the situation on the city's buses. Two weeks ago, Bus Driver John Talley was shot and killed by a band of Negro youths, climaxing a wave of nearly 250 holdups so far this year...
...victim is a homosexual. Why? The answer, as provided by a speech in the script: "A law which sends homosexuals to prison"-as Britain's does-"is a charter for blackmail." As the film begins, a young homosexual (Peter McEnery) who has robbed his employer to pay his extortionist is caught by the police. Rather than implicate the eminent barrister (Dirk Bogarde) with whom he is emotionally (though not sexually) involved, the boy commits suicide. Deeply shocked, the lawyer resolves to break up the extortion racket, even if he has to risk his marriage (Sylvia Syms) and wreck...