Word: duress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Prior to the formation of the broadly-based regime to organize elections, the parties will settle the question, of political prisoners and political rights. All persons held under duress will be free to return to their homes and to pursue their livelihoods...
...such items as interest payments and dividends to U.S. corporations tipped the overall balance the other way, to a deficit for Canada of $60 million). The pact contains so-called "transitional" safeguards for Canada that Washington is now anxious to abolish. Ottawa is willing to negotiate but not under duress...
...Eulogy. He was anything but melancholy. A visiting poet friend later wrote: "Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned. The moment our eyes met his, community was established. Everything corporeal became subject to a new order, irradiated by beauty. What reigned here was not pressure and duress, but utter freedom...
...cheated Beefheart) famous for Doug Moon's delta blues pickin' and Beefheart's singin' on "China Pig," they played "Big Joan Sets Up," a new version, "My Human Get's Me Blues" ("I saw you baby dancing in yer x-ray gingham dress. I knew you were under duress. I knew you under your dress. Keep on comin Jesus, you de bes' dressed.") Trout Mask was the first record of his to get any advertising which let a lot more people know about him, but many still don't take the music seriously...
...fate hung in the balance for months, but last week the case was officially closed, at least from the German point of view. The Munich prosecutor's office announced that it had interrogated more than 200 witnesses, and had decided to drop all charges because Defregger acted under duress. In an apparent tradeoff, Julius Cardinal Döpfner announced the next day that he would accept Defregger's resignation as leader of the diocese. Defregger will retain the rank of bishop and handle administrative tasks regarding religious orders. Meanwhile an investigation continues in the village of Filetto...