Word: duress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis regarded him as also a leader of the shadowy Palestinian terrorist group, Black September. Abu Daoud, the Al-Fatah leader imprisoned in Jordan, seemed to support this belief in a recent "confession" about the inner workings of Fatah, but other Palestinians contend that his statement was made under duress and was untrue...
...President emphasized yesterday that despite the strong action of the Corporation, the University has no objection to "responsible" research with consciousness-expanding drugs. Alpert is the only Faculty member to be dismissed since Pusey became President in 1953, although a few men have "resigned under duress...
...family hit the hallelujah trail around the independent Pentecostal churches of the South and the Midwest. When Marjoe preached, according to the film, his parents cued him with prayerful exclamations ("Praise God!" meant the audience was ready for a collection); at home he was taught his routines under duress. To make him learn his lines, he claims, his mother sometimes smothered him with a pillow or stuck his head under water. Early film clips in the movie show horrific visions of the Pavlovian result: a red-headed marionette masquerading as a prodigy of God. Even as recently as last year...
...caused him considerable anguish since October, when he was first called before the grand jury here. He has had to engage a lawyer full-time, and he has spent countless hours haggling out responses to the government's repeated attempts to force testimony from him. The resultant mental duress has no doubt affected Popkin's work as a professor and a scholar, and the delays the government investigation has caused him in completing a book could diminish his chances for tenure...
...MUJIBUR RAHMAN. I plan to release him unconditionally in a couple of days, with hope and faith that the fire of Pakistan still burns in his heart. He will be free to go. I am not extracting any promise from him. I'm not talking to him under duress, but between elected leaders of the two parts of Pakistan. From one end of the spectrum to the other, an extremely loose arrangement could be worked out, but at least the name of Pakistan must remain. It's our legacy of 1,000 years...