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...issue -- whether or not force would be used in the repatriation -- has yet to be resolved. Hong Kong officials implied last week that coercion would be used if necessary, but the U.S. reiterated its longstanding objections. "We will do everything we can to encourage and enable people to return home with dignity," said Hong Kong Secretary for Security Alistair Asprey. "Whether they do so depends on their own behavior, which we cannot control." Some 11,000 Vietnamese have already been induced to return home voluntarily by the offer of cash payments totaling $410 a person...
DESPITE CHARGES of authoritarianism, Gorbachev's record in office entitles him to ask for the necessary authority to enact a reform program that eventually should employ the creation of a market economy in the Soviet Union and the establishment of a new federation based on consent rather than coercion. If he should be faulted, it would be on one point: his boundless confidence and ambition to harness his country's potential has led him to ignore an essential aspect of politics--that human beings do not always react the way one believes they will when designing programs for them...
...according to David Kendrick of the National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund (NRWLDF). The NRWLDF is representing eight of these workers before the National Labor Relations Board. Kendrick says that the NRWLDF is currently involved in more than 400 cases, many of them involving similar cases of union coercion...
...give." On the flip side, adds Conner, in an analysis Clinton shares, "liberals are going to have to realize that the only way to generate public support for expanding the programs they see people needing is to accept linking that help to some very tough disincentives, and even coercion, for those who don't understand that along with government's help come serious obligations...
...referring to the guarantees, Bush promised only that he was "committed to seeing that they get considered." Last week, instead of subtly pointing at its wallet, the White House made clear that it was ready to pull it away. What had been an admonition came close to sounding like coercion, at least for some Israelis. Said Yossi Olmert, the Israeli government spokesman: "Bush has crossed that Rubicon...