Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerusalem, the sense of accommodation was equally evident. As a new Knesset was sworn in-with Premier Golda Meir* as its oldest member taking the oath first-the Labor-dominated government won easy approval (76-35) for the disengagement agreement. In addressing the Knesset, Mrs. Meir announced that Israel does not consider the eventual pullback line in the Sinai -to be reached 12 days after the west bank retirement is finished-as a permanent border. "It has been our position from the start," she said, "that the separation of forces is not the ultimate goal, for we are prepared...
Herbert L. Porter, the former Nixon re-election committee official who admitted lying under oath to remain a "team player," was charged yesterday with making false statements...
management, black v. white-for three days of inaugural celebration. The theme was reconciliation. U.S. District Court Judge Damon Keith, who is black, and State Supreme Court Justice John Swainson, who is white, administered the oath of office to Young in unison...
...Sirica urged the Government's prosecutors to put certain Nixon officials "under oath in the grand jury room." At least one, former Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans, had been permitted by the prosecution to submit a sworn statement to the grand jury in lieu of testifying. "I am still not satisfied that all of the pertinent facts have been produced before an American jury," Sirica declared. He reminded the prosecutors of a list of persons he wanted them to question again...
...Jersey bar, I wish you to know that when I am in the presence of a Watergate discussion, I am proud and stand high, knowing that our Judicial Branch of the Government, through you, has saved our form of government from disaster. Your dedication to duty and to your oath of office, irrespective of the grave consequences that had to follow, have earned for you the everlasting gratitude of the bench and the bar of this country...