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...gold that had been buried by ancient Israelites who had migrated to America. According to Smith's 1838 account of the momentous event, the angel Moroni showed him the site outside Palmyra where the plates were hidden. Harris is one of the Mormon Church's "Three Witnesses," who attest that they too saw the plates, so his truthfulness is also a matter of faith. The Harris letter, dated seven months after the publication of the Book of Mormon, recounts what he says are Smith's words about the scriptural discovery: "I . . . only just got it because of the enchantment," says...
...June, 1981, Senator Moynihan introduced a resolution in the Senate which provided that no bill could be sent to the House or to the President which a majority of Senators present and voting "cannot attest to having read." Mr. Moynihan assured his colleagues that the resolution was not in just, though it is unlikely he expected it to be adopted...
...certain he regards this as an unforntunate development. I would like to suggest, therefore, that the Senator consider resubmitting his original resolution, with the added provision that no bill may be voted on which a majority of Senators "cannot attest to having understood...
...weeks of subsequent testimony, has attempted both to back up the substance of the documentary and to show that its producers did not doubt its accuracy. The network has presented three kinds of witnesses: CBS employees, military and intelligence officers who worked with Westmoreland, and former soldiers who could attest independently to the damage inflicted by the civilian "irregular" forces. Last week witnesses from all three categories were on the stand...
...mean to belittle in any way our sense of revulsion against this brutality. I knew Caroline, liked her, and can attest to the glowing words that friends used to describe her in newspaper accounts of her death. But there was something in the reaction here that conjured up that gnawing feeling we don't like to admit to ourselves--that the liberalism here often runs only skin-deep, that there is an insularity to the Ivy-covered walls surrounding...