Word: coercion
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...provide information to an American Senator." His riposte seemed relatively mild, considering that the bill under review was designed specifically and solely to influence South African policy. Still, Botha apparently failed to appreciate the Senate's carefully nurtured view of its proceedings as "deliberative" and free from apparent coercion...
...family-planning group: "I would guess what may still be going on is a woman who is pregnant with her second child has ten people come over to her house every night and talk to her until she has an abortion. But in the Chinese mind, that's not coercion. That's persuasion...
...government action -- or inaction. Though the Georgia homosexual was never prosecuted, he challenged the convenient tradition itself by claiming that the constitutional right to privacy applied to him as well as to anyone else. There had, after all, been no children involved, no victim of any kind, no coercion, no public misbehavior. In such circumstances, doesn't a free citizen have a right to do as he pleases? One can sense a certain irritation over such a "gay rights" claim in the brusque rejection by Justice White. It is, said White, "at best, facetious...
...Wang Hsi-chueh, 57, to divert the plane to Canton. Wang told a press conference in Peking that he had been homesick and wanted to see his father and brothers. Officials in Taiwan, however, claimed that the defection of the $48,000-a-year pilot was the result of coercion and had been carefully planned. They pointed to the well-drilled precision with which Chinese army troops surrounded the jet when it landed at Canton and the presence of television cameras as evidence that Wang's arrival was anticipated...
...move which came five days after most College classes stopped meeting to observe the reading period, the Faculty Council unanimously endorsed a statement which cited "the element of coercion that may be involved" when classes meet at the shantytown and calls such moves "unacceptable," said Faculty Council Secretary John R. Marquand...