Word: oath
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Archconservative Pontiac Dealer Evan Mecham needed five tries to become Governor of Arizona. Now, just ten months after taking his oath, the grandfatherly Mormon is under siege. He has been ridiculed in the comic strip Doonesbury, faces a formidable recall campaign, and is the target of a grand jury investigation that could lead to impeachment...
...issue be disallowed, Presiding Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has agreed to hear medical witnesses on Deaver's problems. In other cases, judges have allowed testimony on whether alcohol impaired a defendant's intent to commit a crime. To prove perjury, Seymour must show that Deaver intended to lie under oath...
...Calero at Harvard Law School did deny us an opportunity to hear this U.S.-sponsored terrorist excuse his violence. Hopefully, Tony Avirgan and his lawyer Daniel Sheehan, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School associated with the Christic Institue, will yet enable Calero to speak, but under oath and cross-examination. Michael L. Charney, M.D. Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry Harvard Medical School
ROBERT BORK still has some explaining to do. Senators last week engaged Bork in an orgy of constitutional nuance that must have left most viewers dazed and confused. This was a mistake. Because his views are so clear (despite his obfuscations under oath) and so representative of the jurisprudence of the New Right, the occasion of Bork's attempted elevation to the Supreme Court and all the hoopla surrounding it provided a unique opportunity for a long-overdue debate. There is an intimate connection between a people's legal system and the kind of people they are. Similarly, there...
...high noon on Wednesday, July 15, almost eight months after he was relieved of his White House duties, Admiral John Poindexter made it official: there was no smoking gun. Ronald Reagan, his former National Security Adviser claimed under oath, had not been told that profits from the ill-conceived arms deals with Iran were diverted to support the Nicaraguan contras. "I made a very deliberate decision not to ask the President so that I could insulate him from the decision and provide some future deniability," the loyal admiral insisted. Then he lit his pipe, sending up a puff of white...