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...takes the oath of office, the new President will doubtless be hailed enthusiastically by most Nicaraguans -- at least for a while. Sick of war, citizens want their government to turn to the bread-and-butter issues that are the bane of all Nicaraguan existence. The magnitude of the task of rebuilding the shattered country makes Chamorro's advisers optimistic that the cease-fire will hold. Says Gilberto Cuadra, president of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise: "Neither the army nor the contras have a future in this country." But cease-fires have been called before in Nicaragua -- and have failed...
...seven decades Soviets have heard countless promises from their Communist leaders, but never an official oath to honor the constitution. The document in question was an outdated product of the Brezhnev era. Gorbachev's new office, and the expanded powers that go along with it, were won by parliamentary, not popular, vote. But there was no denying the fact that almost five years to the day after he assumed the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev had engineered nothing less than a coup d'etat, effectively ending his party's monopoly on power. Said...
...basic premise of medicine that doctors should be healers and care givers; that they must work for their patients' well-being; that if they cannot cure, they should at least do no harm. When they took their Hippocratic oath, they promised, "I will give no deadly medicine to anyone if asked, nor suggest any such counsel . . ." But the plight of the incurably ill has challenged all these premises and left doctors and nurses deeply divided over their duties to the dying...
Last Thursday the Parliament amended the presidential oath of office to eliminate the customary pledge of loyalty to socialism, a vow that the nonsocialist Havel likely would have refused to take. In the same session, Parliament honored Havel's determination to have "close by my side" another revered ghost from 1968. Alexander Dubcek, the former leader who launched the Prague Spring, was restored to a post of power, after two decades of internal exile, by being elected the legislature's new presiding officer. The stately transition was completed on Friday, when Prime Minister Marian Calfa, whose Communist Party colleagues...
Senate President William Bulger administered the oath of office to Weld and Lt. Gov. A. Paul Cellucci shortly after noon, ushering in an era of Republican leadership to take charge of a state reeling from the shock of a serious regional recession...