Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Roosevelt, Jr. '68 displayed a written pledge to vote against income tax increases, while a campaign aide distributed copies of the oath to the other candidates. When he asked them to sign it as well, the debate's moderator ordered Roosevelt to remove the pledges or leave the debate. After some hesitation, Roosevelt asked the aide to collect the papers...
...away at midnight 14 years ago (when martial law was declared), the people should formally recover those rights and liberties in the full light of day." An hour later Ferdinand Marcos stepped onto the balcony at Malacanang Palace before a crowd of 4,000 cheering supporters and took the oath of office. "Whatever we have before us, we will overcome," he promised, while Imelda vowed to serve the people "all my life up to my last breath." Though she was choked with emotion, few people outside the palace sensed that this was to be the Marcoses' farewell. Then the Marcoses...
...splendid backdrop for the more modestly attired guest of honor. Clad in a simple yellow dress, Corazon ("Cory") Aquino, 53, could hardly have imagined this moment three months ago, when her improbable quest for the Philippine presidency began. Her voice was calm and steady as she recited the presidential oath, her hand resting on a leather-bound Bible. "I am taking power in the name of the Filipino people," she declared. "I pledge a government dedicated to upholding truth and justice, morality and decency, freedom and democracy...
...unarmed, democratic revolution and, perhaps to their own astonishment, triumphed. In a period of only 78 hours, as his troops and tanks backed off from confrontations with thousands of demonstrators, Marcos slipped swiftly from undisputed one-man rule to no rule at all. Just after Aquino took her presidential oath, Marcos had himself inaugurated at Malacanang; it was his last official act before fleeing to Clark Air Base, north of Manila, and thence to Guam and Hawaii...
...Harvard peace organization, with both student and faculty members, was formed last year after 50 people from the Divinity School signed the Pledge of Resistance, an oath of civil disobedience in the event of a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua...