Word: duress
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first day in Jerusalem, I could sense that Israel had crossed the psychological Rubicon; it was at least thinking about moving to the west of Quneitra, beyond the pre-1973 defense line. The grudging Israeli procedures, the interminable sessions, the innuendoes about duress, the Talmudic precision, the obvious anguish of our interlocutors created an atmosphere compounded of petty irritation and a strange kind of exaltation at witnessing a people baring its soul so nakedly. It obscured the fact that crabwise, in a manner least calculated to get it credit, the Israeli Cabinet was extending itself to overcome its nightmares...
...proceeded to recant his earlier statements in the presence of the Western reporters. As the local Communist Party leader and provincial governor looked on crestfallen, the pale and nervous mechanic told the foreigners, "I regret it. I was not aware of what I was doing and acted under duress. I had a choice-freedom or internment...
Insiders at the paper said the apologia was written "under duress" by Editorial Page Editor Meg Greenfield, meaning that she got a lot of heat from Executive Editor Ben Bradlee and Publisher Donald Graham. Post reporters, still smarting from the Janet Cooke Pulitzer Prize hoax earlier this year, were distressed to see their paper leaping into another ethical mud puddle. So were other journalists...
America must keep every promise it made in obtaining the release of the hostages. Duress or not, these obligations represent our country's honor. Shall we sink to Iranian depths and break this word...
...weaponry and military resources. The bellicosity of both antagonists, along with an absence of common negotiating ground, now suggested that the war could drag on for months. Said a senior British diplomat: "Iraq can't bring Iran to its knees, and Iran won't negotiate under duress. That's the dilemma...