Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public record on this episode is blotted with falsehood. The aura of scandal hangs over the whole matter. If Mitchell says under oath what he said in the statement he issued it will be one of the most arrogant displays of perjury this committee has ever heard...
...Life. Later, the gunmen fought against the newly organized Free State government, because it had accepted partition and taken an oath of allegiance to the crown. Even when Eamon de Valera, a commander of the Easter Rebellion, took over as Free State Prime Minister in 1932, the I.R.A. kept up the struggle. De Valera was ultimately forced to round up and intern many of his old comrades in arms...
Heart to Heart. Moments after he took the oath of office, Bhutto accepted the retirement offers of seven generals, including Yahya himself. (Seven more were fired later in the week, as well as six top navy officers.) He appointed a new acting army commander, Lieut. General Gul Hasan, and assured younger officers that despite the defeat, they had nothing to be ashamed of: "You are the victims of a system...
...most heartbreaking youngsters in all of New England. One lad has only half a face, another is strapped into a wheelchair, several others are schizophrenic; most have an unfavorable prognosis. During one meeting, a boy who could not talk until Poulin formed the troop reads haltingly through the Scout oath, then breaks into happy shouts of "Scout! Scout!" when he is done...
...Madness (Harper & Row, 1970), unnecessary incarceration, forced therapy and denial of legal rights are common in the United States. The enormous difference, constitutional rights and traditions aside, is that in the Soviet Union punitive psychiatry appears to be an instrument of policy. With expedient blindness to the Hippocratic oath, Meditsinskaya Gazeta, a leading Russian medical journal, has asserted that physicians "can have no secrets from the state...