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...Polish government to fulfill its obligations under the Helsinki accords has clearly been abandoned," charged Canadian External Affairs Minister Mark MacGuigan. Said Secretary of State Alexander Haig: "The generals in this war against the Polish people are none other than the Polish regime itself, acting at the instigation and coercion of the Soviet Union." Added West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher: "We cannot accept that the threat of force can be justified even when it is employed within an alliance...
...outrage against the "coercion and violation of human rights on a massive scale" and the "arbitrary power" that the Communist regime of Poland has used in its effort to crush Solidarity, Reagan sounded more certain than ever that Communism is evil, but less confident than before that it is doomed. His ambivalence is understandable. It reflects a contradiction that is inherent in Soviet-style Communism, which is not primarily a system for making sure that people are fed, housed, healthy, safe, productively engaged and free to pursue happiness...
...Members of the military, police, fire and civil defense services, as well as thousands of workers newly "militarized" to deter them from striking, will be subject to penalties, including death, applied to soldiers on active service in time of war. The armed forces are authorized to use "coercion to restore calm, law-and-order...
...King's proposed "workfare" program--which could require welfare mothers to seek employment--came under fire from Atkins, who said "the costs of coercion would offset" any benefits from the program...
...this setting, Foucault has produced a piercing and extremely influential series of books on the subtlest problems of individual liberty and social coercion. In analyzing the relationship between power and truth, he is in the process of redefining both. The nine major books translated into English range from Madness and Civilization (1961) through studies of hospitals (The Birth of the Clinic, 1966), prisons (Discipline and Punish, 1975) to the first volume of a projected five-volume History of Sexuality (1976). Foucault is now finishing the second volume, for publication early in 1982, but anyone who expects lurid revelations will...