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Reisman: Well, I think in part the explanation would be historical, that many had been migrants from the South. ...In addition, there can be factors that are less well known that applied--for example, it's certainly possible that there was some amount of open intimidation and coercion in the North...
...force, in which the government protects the individual from all private force--murders, raping, robbery--and in which the government does not initiate force. ...In that society, an individual may or may not become the owner of means of production. Capitalism simply means the establishment of freedom from coercion...
...talk, Sau raised the issue of the Saigon government's use of defoliants. Although he did not have precise information concerning how Saigon had obtained the chemicals, Sau asserted that the Thieu regime was using them because that regime is anti-popular and cannot exist without the use of coercion. If Thieu sprays chemicals on PRG-controlled areas, it is because he considers them to be the new Vietnam: the city of Loc Ninh is the new Saigon-- life is cheaper, the people live better. Sau insisted that the Thieu regime had been doing everything in its power to prevent...
...consistency in two of Mendelsohn's current projects: the New England chairmanship of the American Friends Service Committee and a lengthy study of the relations of social and intellectual bases of science. "I'd love to see a world brought into being which reflected values of non-violence, non-coercion, of inclusion rather than exclusion--one that placed man in harmony with nature," Mendelsohn says in summing up his loftiest hopes. Within such goals there is work for the activist, academic, and scientist alike...
...foolish tactical error, the prosecutor allowed Aquino's opening written statement to be made part of the record. It turned out to be a violent attack on Marcos' "new society" as a regime bent on "coercion, violence, human degradation, the total suppression of civil liberties and political processes, and the imprisonment of political enemies." Since the statement had been made in open court, it could therefore be freely reprinted despite martial law. Indeed, thousands of mimeographed copies were soon circulating all over Manila...