Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another? This oath shall...
...family, in New York Mafia usage, is a gang of from 75 to 1,000 men, all of Italian descent, who are bound by a loyalty oath of blood and fire and organized into regimes, or squads, under the command of capos, who in turn take their orders from the underboss and the boss. Family members are often but not necessarily related by blood...
...refused to approve a new law increasing personnel in the security forces and national fire department. Within half an hour Papadopoulos had been "requested" to succeed the general as Regent. Under pictures of Constantine and his Danish-born Queen Anne-Marie, Greece's undisputed strongman took an oath upon a gold-embossed Bible to uphold King, constitution and country. While a surprised Zoitakis was being notified of his dismissal, Papadopoulos accepted congratulations from the Cabinet. "Incidentally," he informed them, "you can still call me Mr. Prime Minister...
...more likely that he was dumped because he had criticized Papadopoulos for failing to curb Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios (TIME, March 13), and because he had become a magnet for younger officers disillusioned over the ravenous Papadopoulos reach for power. Another reason, insiders whispered, was that Papadopoulos-despite his oath last week-intends to dethrone Constantine completely and cut off the generous allowance that permits the handsome King to live comfortably in Rome. Sooner or later, it is believed, Papadopoulos will try to thwart international criticism of his dictatorship by creating a new republic with himself as President...
...bare outline of the legends: young Cuchulain, challenged by the warrior-Queen Aoife, defeats her in battle and that night begets a son by her. Years later, after taking an oath of allegiance to his king Conchubar, Cuchulain's son appears as a nameless young man who challenges Cuchulain at Conchubar's insistence, and is killed by his father. Learning the young man's identity, Cuchulain turns on Conchubar but is charmed into attacking the waves at the seashore instead. Finally, in his old age, weakened from loss of blood, Cuchulain meets Aoife again--who has come to kill...