Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anti-Nixon activities. As scheduling director of the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, he was aware that the money actually had been transferred to G. Gordon Liddy for dirty tricks, including the Watergate breakin. Strictly speaking, Porter had not committed perjury because he was not under oath, but he broke the law by lying to a federal agency in the course of an investigation. Porter thus becomes the 17th defendant to be convicted in the Watergate and related campaign scandals. There are likely to be still more convictions as the court calendars are filled in. Fourteen defendants...
...committee leaders hope to reach a compromise with St. Clair. They are willing to discard the idea of taking depositions. Instead, the staff would interview witnesses, who would not be under oath but would be asked to sign their statements. Since these would be less formal than depositions, no cross-examination would be appropriate. Whether committee Republicans will accept that proposal is still in doubt...
...four months, the share of people surveyed by the statewide Minnesota poll who want Nixon to resign has gone from 36% to 47%-just two points below those who want him to continue in office. Asked if they felt that Nixon had broken his oath of office, 58% said yes. In California, the Field Poll found 46% believed that Nixon should be impeached, an additional 24% felt that he should resign, and only 23% said that the investigations should be dropped...
...public shock at the series spread, Lugar defensively pointed out the difference between an anonymous tipster and a grand-jury witness. He said citizens had sometimes brought him charges similar to those running in the Star. "When I've asked them to testify under oath before the Marion County grand jury," he complained, "many disappear." But Lugar's problem did not. Questions about police corruption began popping up at speeches given well outside Indianapolis, and Lugar decided to deal with the issue at home. He formed a seven-man committee to study the police department, began interviewing some...
...doctors agree. Some feel that they are bound by the Hippocratic oath to do all they can to preserve life. Others, aware that an incurable condition today may be a manageable one tomorrow, fear making the wrong decision. "No matter how expert we are, we can't predict outcome," says Dr. Judah Folkman, surgeon in chief at Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston...