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QUOTE OF NOTE: "It is my feeling that violation of the oath of office should carry a penalty that is at least equal to a felony and possibly a charge as serious as treason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A GUIDE TO THE CONGRESSIONAL RACES: MICHIGAN | 11/4/1996 | See Source »

Trudeau's essay was right to the point. I think many people will have to agree with his "oath" that "at one time I possessed, consumed and probably distributed marijuana ... activities for which I may feel embarrassment but not guilt." You have opened a discussion that is long overdue. Trudeau's logic is magic. ROBERT L. DOAK Kissimmee, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 7, 1996 | 10/7/1996 | See Source »

...drug use), the generation that popularized the stuff has got to finally come clean about what made it so alluring in the first place--and then square that with current marijuana policy. A good start might be for every middle-aged public official in America to take the following oath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GETTING OVER GETTING STONED | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...babies (after his speech, President Clinton played peekaboo with brother Roger's cherubic toddler) and children besieged by a host of modern threats, from TV violence to tainted burgers to weary mothers holding down three jobs. Between the White House's proposals on teen smoking and Al Gore's oath to protect children from lighting up, the Clinton-Gore team seemed to be running against the Dole-Gingrich-Joe Camel ticket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIED AWAY WITH KIDS | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Rumors, confusion and anxiety gripped Moscow so intensely last week that his Kremlin handlers just had to produce a live Boris Yeltsin. The President of Russia had not been seen publicly since his alarmingly inarticulate inaugural oath of office on Aug. 9, while all manner of confounding events were convulsing the country. See, presidential aides needed to demonstrate, he's still the boss. But Yeltsin's surprise photo op last Thursday evening provided precious little reassurance. He didn't look as frail and puffy or sound as slurred as he had in the inauguration, yet his appearance lasted only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IS YELTSIN REALLY IN CHARGE? | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

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