Word: oath
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from top Textron and Bell officials, who might have told Miller of the bribes, by simply granting them immunity. Civiletti insists more witnesses will be called before the grand jury and "where necessary, their testimony compelled." Until they are, the question of whether or not William Miller lied under oath is unlikely to be resolved...
...agree with Drs. Curran and Cass-cells [Feb. 4] that for physicians to be involved in administering lethal injections in cases of capital punishment "would constitute a cruel and unusual breach of medical ethics." The Hippocratic oath-already eroded by legalized abortion -would be further undercut, and the physician's historic mission as healer would again be compromised by such a death-dealing task...
...issues the decision is clear. The question is one of character. Kennedy has endured scrutiny of his psyche like no other candidate in history. He has answered all questions about and taken responsibility for all of his actions. He testified under oath about his behavior at Chappaquiddick and despite every attempt, moral and immoral, ethical and unethical, to disprove his story, no one has ever done so conclusively. Those looking for insight into his character would do better looking at two decades of support for blacks, Hispanics and native Americans than at one more analysis of the tidal currents under...
Undoubtedly the most positive of the signs was the take-charge attitude of President Abolhassan Banisadr, 47, who took the oath of office last week after having been elected with an impressive 76% of the vote. When the militants who are holding the U.S. embassy published documents supposedly Unking Iran's National Guidance Minister Nasser Minachi with the CIA, Banisadr denounced the militants as "lawless dictators" and criticized the national radio and television network for spreading their propaganda. Then he ordered the release from prison of Minachi, who is regarded as a man with impeccable revolutionary credentials...
Banisadr also won a battle against the ambitious mullahs who resented the rise of a layman to a position of such importance in the revolution. They tried to postpone the oath-taking ceremony until after elections to the National Assembly next month. But Iran's strongman, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who has been hospitalized for three weeks following a heart attack, ordered the ceremony to proceed immediately. Khomeini himself administered the oath of office to Banisadr at the Heart Hospital in north Tehran...