Word: coercion
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...decision that may deter Klan mischief more effectively than any number of congressional investigations, Judge John Minor Wisdom warned Klan toughs all over the South that they face effective federal intervention at the smallest interference with Negroes' rights, can no longer use economic coercion and threats of violence to keep Negroes from voting...
...Fifth Amendment bars the use of any confession that police extract from a suspect by brutality. Indeed, it bars any conceivable kind of coercion, including the most subtle threats or promises. But the point where such coercion starts is often difficult to define. As a result, the FBI, which gathers evidence for federal courts in which the Fifth unquestionably applies, routinely warns all suspects of their rights to silence and to counsel. On arrest, a federal prisoner must be arraigned forthwith before the neatest U.S. commissioner and supplied with a lawyer if he cannot afford one-all of which upholds...
...small "conventional" probes to all-out nuclear holocaust. Strategies of victory may be based on either the concrete elements of the crisis or on manipulation of levels of violence. The nuclear "balance of terror," however, discourages the actual use of force and makes threats a major means of international coercion. For the nuclear age, Clausewitz is amended to read: "The manipulation of the risks of war is the continuation of state policy by other means...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7--U.S. Attorney General Nicholas DeB. Katzenbach warned this evening that student demonstrations on the campus may damage the force of civil rights protests if they become instruments of coercion rather than persuasion...
...baseball player to thumb an umpire from the ballpark. The effects of the Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 are changing some of that. Among other things, the law required that unions overhaul their constitutions so as to give rank-and-file members more protection against fraud and coercion in voting on their leadership. Thanks in part to more democratic procedures, six major national union heads have been voted out within the last year. Most notable were the International Union of Electrical Workers' James B. Carey, 54, whose nasty disposition finally caught up with him, and the Steelworkers' David...