Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years as president, then got a surprise honorary degree himself ("You have been the disturber of placid assumptions and the preserver of the peace"). Amid the azaleas and tulips of his campus residence. Brewster was later sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The man who administered the oath of office: Cyrus Vance, his old friend and as Secretary of State, his new boss, who had interrupted his talks at Geneva to fly back at his own expense to watch his son Cyrus Vance Jr. graduate with the class...
...familiar Mafia lore that has become commonplace knowledge through movies and fiction is essentially true. All the made men are bound by a loyalty oath of blood and fire. They are divided into regimes, or squads, under the command of caporegimes, or lieutenants, who in turn take their orders from the clan's dons. Years ago, the don was both a prince of crime and social arbiter among Italians in his territory. But the breakup of the old Italian neighborhoods has stripped away his social functions?and any romanticism that might have surrounded him. Today he is no more than...
...exception on the committee appears in the person of State Rep. Charles R. Doyle, whose conspicuous silence on Pat Horton stems from the fact that he did not attend any of the committee hearings where Horton and others took the oath. Incidentally, Doyle says he is "leaning toward keeping the criminal penalties on at this time...
Oltmans' testimony-given under oath-was sensational stuff. De Mohrenschildt, said Oltmans, claimed he had been the middleman in a conspiracy of rich Texas oilmen, headed by the late H.L. Hunt, and anti-Castro Cubans to kill Kennedy. Oswald was one gunman, but supposedly several Cubans were also assigned to shoot the President. One could even be identified. Oltmans provided the committee with a picture of a Cuban whom he said fired shots at Kennedy. But apart from the dramatic backdrop provided by De Mohren-schildt's suicide, the story was just another series of rumors that could...
...took the oath of office last week, Bhutto proffered "a warm embrace, a handshake" to the opposition. He offered to lift the state of emergency, release political prisoners and relax press censorship if the National Alliance would promise an end to "agitational politics." Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, the only prominent opposition leader not in jail, called the proposal "political blackmail." Said he: "By trying to bargain with the opposition on the question of human rights, Bhutto is attempting to strengthen his rule over the country." With the politicians locked in a dangerous standoff, some observers feared that the next response might...