Word: duress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jeffrey Olsen, 26, had busted out of a minimum security federal prison in Minnesota, but when he was caught and put on trial for unlawfully leaving prison, his lawyer explained that he was not legally guilty. Olsen had acted under duress, said Duluth Attorney Robert Kaner, because he feared that he would be homosexually raped. The Government conceded that homosexuality certainly existed in the prison, and Olsen's bunkmate, who was admittedly gay, testified to having brawled with another homosexual just before Olsen fled...
...Watergate scandal that were getting hotter. His words were tape-recorded, of course, like most conversations in the Oval Office. But this particular call for a continued cover-up was somehow omitted from a transcript of the March 22 meeting that the White House finally released -under duress-last April...
...good faith," they wrote in a letter to Ebert on December 1, "...some members of the class felt that the Faculty of Medicine should not be forced to make such a decision at this time under duress...
...fragile Mendoza connection and turned in a copy to the censor, he was told: "We know all about your file. Naval intelligence was listening closely." Eisendrath protested the intimidation in a conversation with two army officers, arguing that journalists find it hard to report fairly while under duress. He was told to take his complaint to General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, the junta leader whom Eisendrath was waiting to see. After his interview with Pinochet, censorship was lifted...
...stiff-backed professional officer, was appalled by what he found: more than 100 polyglot prisoners, Americans and others, civilians and servicemen. Though he was held in solitary much of the time. Guy issued orders by tapping in code on his cell walls. Men who, under torture or duress, had been cooperating with the enemy by making antiwar statements were told to taper off and eventually to desist completely...