Word: duress
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trial begins on the highest moral and forensic planes with a charge that Germany's judges, under political duress, destroyed the heritage of law that they were sworn to defend. But in short order the script stoops to conquer the attention with a long, clinically detailed and (for all legal and dramatic purposes) pointless discussion of sexual sterilization in the Third Reich. Next comes the prurient account of an episode in which an elderly Jew, accused of committing Rassenschande (race shame) with a 16-year-old "Aryan'' girl, is legally murdered by a German judge. Finally...
...pledges to merge Katanga with the rest of the Congo; as Moise left for home, he embraced his old enemies, showered them with compliments. But once he was back in the safety of Katanga, crafty Tshombe changed his tune. The agreement signed in Leopoldville was forced from him under duress, he sneered. Last week Tshombe's regime declared that Katanga would not give up its own separate currency or its army, nor would it join a customs union with the rest of the Congo. Above all, Katanga's Moise Tshombe would not be sending any delegates...
...called loudly for revival of the control commission. But no sooner had the U.S. come around to the idea than Khrushchev began to hedge. Now he demanded an "Asian arbitration congress" instead. He may still deny the legality of the Boun Oum government, claiming that it was elected under duress, and go right on dropping supplies to Kong Le. But at week's end there were no Ilyushins in the air over Laos...
...messenger between the two sides. Just before the assault, Richards had arrived at the palace bearing a letter from a loyalist general. While Rebel "Premier" Ras Imru (who was forgiven for his role in the revolt last week by the Emperor on the grounds that he had acted "under duress") was scribbling his reply, loyalist tanks came charging through the palace gates. Richards scampered out a window in the nick of time-"it was the nearest available exit." Another U.S. official in a tight spot was Mrs. Oswald B. Lord of Minneapolis, who happened to be in Addis Ababa...
Master Stroke. At war's end. Hong Kong was a wreck. Its harbor facilities had been destroyed by bombings, and two-thirds of its population had fled. The colony was flooded with worthless currency called "duress notes," which the Japanese had forced the Hongkong & Shanghai Banking Corp. to issue. The British acted boldly: with the help of the local government and the Bank of England, the corporation redeemed every duress note at face value-an operation costing $30 million. "A master stroke," sighed one relieved financier. "Nothing did more to restore Hong Kong's prestige so quickly...