Word: duress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Pierre Taittinger, 77, mayor of Paris during the German occupation, scion of one of France's most illustrious champagne families, whose collaboration with the Nazis, though under duress, won him a short prison term and utter disgrace after the war, but was later credited with saving Paris from the destruction repeatedly ordered by Hitler as Allied armies advanced on the city; of uremic poisoning; in Paris...
...Bears are the dullest team in pro football- to anybody but a connoisseur of crunch. They hug the ground defiantly, pass only under duress, rank No. 8 in the fourteen-team N.F.L. m scoring (with 233 points) and No. 11 in total offense (with 3,329 yds.). That kind of football is hardly calculated to win friends and influence fans: last month, when the Bears beat the lowly Los Angeles Rams 6-0 on the strength of two field goals they played most of the second half to the accompaniment of home-town boos But the Bears make no excuses...
...President Truman declared a state of emergency in connection with the Korean War. In 1953, he reiterated the stand. Since then ten years have passed without renewal or recall of the executive order. Zemel will contend that if U.S. citizens are subjected to such conditions of extreme duress, the government certainly owes them detailed and up-to-date explanations of its policy...
...judge. But the case never got to court. In 1922, after considerable pressure from Britain, the Peruvian government agreed that London & Pacific actually owned both surface and subsoil rights to the entire 416,140 acres; in return Peru got a company promise to pay at least nominal taxes. Crying duress, Peru's outraged Congress refused to ratify the agreement...
Awolowo, denying all the accusations, said there was insufficient evidence to prove the case, and declared that some of the testimony was obtained under duress. In a half-hour closing oration, Awolowo frankly lamented that "the invaluable services which . . . I can still render will be lost to the country." The judge, George Sowemimo, who was openly distressed by the entire proceeding, said he had no choice but to convict. In a nine-hour decision delivered last week, he gave Awolowo ten years in prison for treasonable felony, just a bit milder than the 15-year prison term meted...