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...requires parties to a civil action to sign a statement of truth - he is unlikely to face a perjury prosecution. But that doesn't mean he can breathe easily. As Stephens points out, "one of the lines of investigation the New Statesman's lawyers might undertake is to ascertain whether the documents in the original cases reveal a deception being perpetrated. If that were the case, it would be open to them to bring a private prosecution." Court filings relating to the original actions were hurriedly unearthed last week from storage facilities, but New Statesman lawyer Bindman says that...
...translation services had been used in the past to attempt sexual compromise. I subsequently wrote a series of reports that said this did not appear to be the case in Votkinsk. In fact, because of the human intelligence work I did in the Soviet Union I was able to ascertain that the girls were actually dissatisfied with the Soviets. They showed a tendency to speak out against the KGB to the U.S. inspectors...
Good: I’ve seen one person. I’ve only seen them with a suitcase twice, so I was unable to ascertain whether they were a real luggage-carrying individual or whether that was a temporary arrangement...
...student body in that instance. I don’t regret it at all. Is the role of the president of the Undergraduate Council to be the student body’s voice to the media or the world? Is one student quote in the Boston Globe going to ascertain that the Afro-American studies department stays put? Highly unlikely, and certainly not the premise under which I voted for Sujean (whose political views are notably to the right of our liberal campus...
...Seoul would "offer a series of incentives to the North in order to bring it to the negotiating table.'' But Hubbard appeared to suggest that the U.S. believed in straight talking rather than concessions. President Bush visits later this month, and the Koreans are currently in Washington trying to ascertain the administration's intentions...