Word: coercion
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According to Daniel Rea. Jr. head of Massachusetts YAF, the treaty "will reinforce the situation we hope to develop in Vietnam-that is a democracy in which the people of South Vietnam would have an opportunity to choose what type of government they desire without coercion by Communists or anyone else...
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...Fear and Coercion. The campus was outraged by Tongyai's apparent provocations, the town by the students' unruly behavior. The furor persuaded Governor Nelson Rockefeller to appoint a special grand jury. It heard testimony that Tongyai had been involved in a fire-bombing of Hobart's ROTC headquarters several weeks before the drug arrests. Skipping all that, the grand jury declared that Hobart officials "recklessly tolerated" student coercion of the law officers, who were thereby forced to "violate" their duties and give up their prisoners...
...accepted the committe idea only after it became apparent that Corcoran was not going to do anything about their original demands to have the Police Chief James K. Reagan and the six officers responsible for beating the Waltons fired. Since the City Council refused to use its power of coercion over the City Manager by threatening him with removal if he did not fire Reagan, there really was no alternative for the blacks but to try the committee idea and keep on pressing for the original demands through other channels...
...legal status of Harvey's arrangement with Janus is unclear, especially since it is a verbal rather than a written agreement. Two Law School profes-sors-one an expert in anti-trust law, the other an authority on film law-said that this might be a case of "coercion from the buyer's side" and thus in restraint of fair trade. Both said they would need more information to make a judgment...