Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Salvador Allende Gossens. Once on the witness stand, there was no telling how many intelligence secrets a desperate Richard Helms might cough up to save his own neck. Conversely, Justice officials and, in particular, the Carter administration acknowledged the need to hold Helms accountable for his transgressions while under oath; the post-Watergate ethos and Carter's own promises for an "open Administration" still pervade Washington...
While objecting to the "loyalty oath" aspects of running with the slate, he stresses that ideologically he differs little from his former CC cohorts, having parted with them on less than a dozen votes in two years on the Council...
...called Fëanor to them and asked him to give up his Silmarils so that there might be light. But Fëanor would not. At that moment Morgoth attacked Fëanor's distant castle and took the jewels. And Fëanor swore a terrible oath that he would lead his Elvish people to Middle-earth and recapture the Silmarils or die in the attempt...
...West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates back to the 17th century, when unemployed samurai turned to Robin Hood-style banditry. Even today the yakuza like to think of themselves as romantic outlaws, bound together by a blood oath of loyalty, who never harm the innocent...
...They told waiting reporters, who had been tipped off about the visit by senatorial aides, that they had learned of "new allegations of illegality" against Lance. The Senators confirmed that the committee staff had interviewed convicted embezzler Billy Lee Cambell, who had claimed vaguely (and apparently never under oath) that Lance was "part of" the thefts at Georgia's Calhoun First National Bank when Lance was its president or chairman...