Word: duress
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are clearly identified as Iraqi approved. "The alternative," says executive vice president Ed Turner, "is to pack up and leave, and then there is no one there at all." CNN, along with NBC and CBS, also aired footage of American POWs making pro-Iraqi statements, apparently under duress. ABC refused to broadcast the statements, noting that its policy is to avoid using anything said by hostages that "furthers the aims of those holding them...
...government had to use a bit of diplomatic sleight of hand to resolve the standoff. Spokesman Shaw admitted that Robinson had agreed to Bakr's terms, but stressed that the Prime Minister had endorsed the demands under extreme duress, making them nonbinding. "Tricked, double-crossed, whatever you want to call it. It is foolish to quibble with ethics when you are dealing with situations of this kind," said Shaw. "Why not promise them the moon and the stars...