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...allies to help. Ordinary soldiers threaten to harass and hobble implementation or quit their posts en masse -- a tough vow to sustain amid a recession but politically explosive nonetheless. The Navy's Reserve Officers Training Corps program on college campuses has installed, and last week was upholding, a new oath. It requires student sailors to pledge that they are not homosexual and that they will return every penny of their training costs (an average of $52,967 per student) if they are, even if they don't discover their sexual identity until later during their service...
Domestic partners must file a domestic partnerregistration form at the City Clerk's Office inCity Hall, which they must sign under oath. Theregistration then becomes a public record, muchlike a marriage record...
Bush is likely to be unemployed after January 20, when President-elect Bill Clinton will take the oath of office. Bush lost to Clinton in an Electoral College landslide last Tuesday...
Ronald Reagan's friend Thomas Jefferson spurned carriages and escorts on his Inauguration Day in 1801. Instead, he strolled from his boardinghouse with some friends to the Capitol, where he took the oath of office and became the third U.S. President. He walked back for lunch -- probably with Reagan...
Federal officials can also call some witnesses who did not testify in state court, including King himself. The state attorneys were criticized for not putting King under oath to describe his beating. Federal prosecutors are almost certain to call him, but his testimony could boomerang against them. King's arrest record, his powerful build, his confused and halting speech could all be used to bolster the police version of events. Indeed, one defense attorney, Michael Stone, intends to call King. Says Stone: "Too many people believe Rodney King's testimony would have changed the outcome of the first trial...