Word: coercion
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...appeal went unanswered by North Viet Nam, which has already flouted the Geneva Convention by parading U.S. prisoners before hostile street mobs, by refusing to allow Red Cross officials to visit them and, Washington suspects, by exacting confessions of guilt through "moral or physical coercion." Indeed, only slightly less grisly than the possibility of their execution was the prospect that Hanoi's leaders may "spare" their American prisoners-only to sentence them to forced labor in installations likely to come under U.S. bombing attack-even though the convention specifies that prisoners can be put to work only on projects...
...Most common grounds: impotence, refusal to have children, coercion of one of the partners into wedlock, close blood ties...
Robert Strange McNamara, LL.D., U.S. Secretary of Defense. It is restorative to have a scholar at the Pentagon, a man who knows that force is coercion and that freedom is captivating...
...provision for the expression and consideration of student opinion before policies are set. Normally, students are willing to remain unenfranchised and even uninformed, but they are morally outraged to find no sympathy for full discussion on an issue that so directly affects their nonacademic lives. Is it coercion for the unenfranchised to demonstrate for a full discussion (not even for a vote)? And is it not a fundamental confusion to talk of an academic community in which one essential element has neither vote nor provision to be heard before community policies...
...election to be "free"; it must also be binding. The winner must be able to exercize the sovereignty which popular mandate bestows upon him. The important question to ask about today's vote is not: "Will it be free;" except for isolated and almost unavoidable instances of corruption and coercion, it probably will be. The important question is: "What does the election mean...