Word: coercion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About an hour before the plane landed in New York, two U.S. embassy officials from Moscow gave the pilots new uniforms, complete with decorations and name tags. The change caused some dismay among the antiwar escorts, who accused the embassy men of coercion. Major Elias, who plans to continue his Air Force career, denied the charge and angrily retorted: "I wasn't forced to put on my uniform." He sat back in his chair and smiled when the big jet finally touched down at J.F.K. When they emerged from the plane, all three men were back in military garb...
...Nelson campaign literature has emphasized the theme that government paternalism and coercion has corroded rights and diminished the lot of productive individuals...
...welfare. The controversy over the University's involvement with Gulf, and indirectly, with Angolan repression, is a moral issue not an economic one. In essence, what is being asked for is a disengagement from, or expiation of, any complicity with the moral degradation of an African people--with their coercion, the deprivation of their basic human rights, and the denial of their dignity and worth as fellow human beings. To expiate itself Harvard must either divest, and as such withdraw from the problem, or it must remain with Gulf and take morally appropriate action. In a moment I will...
...which, at given moments of time, are judged more important than others. Gulf's involvement in Angola is very much a part of Harvard's moral universe in view of its part ownership of the company, its capacity to influence the company's policy, and the absence of any coercion on its capacity to exercise or to attempt to exercise such influence. And Gulf's involvement in Angola is, at this time, highly relevant to a significant segment of the Harvard community, for no other reason than that we have chosen to make it important. The choice is arbitrary...
...total of 59½ hours, one of the longest periods ever in a federal criminal case. Along the way, the defense made several of its motions for a mistrial (all denied) by posing the question of how long a jury can deliberate before free discussion becomes court "coercion" to arrive at a verdict. At one point, the defense called for a mistrial based in part on the fact that Judge Herman had "summarily denied" a request by married jurors for conjugal visits. That in turn led trial-goers to pass the time by envisioning such headlines as SEX-STARVED JURY...