Word: duress
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...President Truman declared a state of emergency in connection with the Korean War. In 1953, he reiterated the stand. Since then ten years have passed without renewal or recall of the executive order. Zemel will contend that if U.S. citizens are subjected to such conditions of extreme duress, the government certainly owes them detailed and up-to-date explanations of its policy...
...judge. But the case never got to court. In 1922, after considerable pressure from Britain, the Peruvian government agreed that London & Pacific actually owned both surface and subsoil rights to the entire 416,140 acres; in return Peru got a company promise to pay at least nominal taxes. Crying duress, Peru's outraged Congress refused to ratify the agreement...
Awolowo, denying all the accusations, said there was insufficient evidence to prove the case, and declared that some of the testimony was obtained under duress. In a half-hour closing oration, Awolowo frankly lamented that "the invaluable services which . . . I can still render will be lost to the country." The judge, George Sowemimo, who was openly distressed by the entire proceeding, said he had no choice but to convict. In a nine-hour decision delivered last week, he gave Awolowo ten years in prison for treasonable felony, just a bit milder than the 15-year prison term meted...
...their own high-booted Jewish police, the councils compiled death lists of Jews and rounded up their own people for deportation to Nazi extermination camps. Refusal to help Eichmann's "transportation" experts would have meant immediate death, but always there was the agonizing moral dilemma: even under duress, was cooperation not betrayal? Last week Israeli Prosecutor David Libai gave the state's answer in the first trial of a Jewish policeman who served the Nazis. Its answer...
...three sone with Scully, Augustine, and AI Bornheimer alternating out front, the Crimson consistently pilfered Dartmouth passes and bottled up Spahn, who led the league in scoring last season. When he was able to get off one of his notorious 30 foot bombs Spahn was usually under duress. In addition to waving hands the Dartmouth shooters were also subjected to the constant chirping of Augustine as he covered his area of the sone...