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...courtroom last week, U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Dr. Louis J. West argued that making a captive feel "debility, dependency and dread" is the key to controlling his behavior. And, added West, Patty was a victim of "persuasive coercion"-another description for gradually breaking down a P.O.W...
...number of ex-P.O.W.s took a less sympathetic view of a coercion defense. Retired Air Force Colonel Quincy Collins, who was held prisoner in North Viet Nam for 7½ years, faced a North Vietnamese indoctrination program that seems far more concentrated and relentless than the ordeal Patty apparently underwent. But, he says, "if you were weak and really screwed up beforehand, you might go over." If she was in fact brainwashed, he says, it was due more to her indulgent parents than to her captors. "Her big problem," he suggests, "is her mommy and daddy," by which...
Summing up, Bailey argued against the submission of the tapes and the "interview" because "she should not be convicted on the basis of statements forced from her." In reply, Browning charged that "everything this court has heard from Miss Hearst of coercion during 1½ years is not true...
...this week's meeting of the Organization for African Unity exposes the self-serving nature of American aid to Third World countries. African resistance to the U.S. administration's threats to withdraw humanitarian and financial aid from MPLA supporters shows the isolation resulting from high-handed American diplomatic coercion. American foreign policy in the Third World must be reoriented toward a recognition of these countries' sovereignty and from attempts at domination. The United States can no longer play the role of a global policeman to protect its strategic and economic interests. Accordingly, the U.S. must renounce its offensive against...
Invariably, violence by ETA has bred violence in reprisals by the Government and "terrorist" activities may more accurately be labeled acts of desperation than serious attempts at coercion. Government reation to assassination has established a precedent of carte blanche policy,; when a soldier, policeman or official is killed, law is suspended and all citizens must open their homes to investigative patrols. If a search turns up someone who is a likely suspect in the eyes of the arresting officer, there is no opportunity to dispute guilt. Charges need not be made and trials are not required before sentence is handed...