Word: oaths
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Rumors, confusion and anxiety gripped Moscow so intensely last week that his Kremlin handlers just had to produce a live Boris Yeltsin. The President of Russia had not been seen publicly since his alarmingly inarticulate inaugural oath of office on Aug. 9, while all manner of confounding events were convulsing the country. See, presidential aides needed to demonstrate, he's still the boss. But Yeltsin's surprise photo op last Thursday evening provided precious little reassurance. He didn't look as frail and puffy or sound as slurred as he had in the inauguration, yet his appearance lasted only...
...seemed to have lost the puffiness, so remarkable at the inauguration ceremony earlier this month, which had been his last public appearance before today. Though he spoke slowly and not without an effort, he did not seem to have the distinctive slur that marred the delivery of his Presidential oath at the inauguration ceremony." Yeltsin dismissed rumors that he would seek treatment in Switzerland, and hinted that he might do without the longer vacation that he had planned. It is not the first time that Yeltsin has mastered all his enormous native strength, pulling himself together just when it seemed...
INAUGURATED. BORIS YELTSIN, 65, for a second term; in Moscow. Aides said Yeltsin, whose speech seemed slurred as he took the oath of office, will now take an extended vacation...
Soon the operative was accepted as a Viper member, taking a "militiaman's oath" in which he promised to kill anyone attempting to infiltrate the militia and seek retribution if any member was arrested. Even as he took the oath, he was wearing a body wire. Over the next few months he reported that Viper Gary Bauer allegedly boasted about a rocket he built that could "take out a police car." Finis Walker, a Viper "captain," said the group's heavy weapons were needed to deal with swat teams, and the explosives were necessary to destroy heavy armor. Soon after...
...long ago, Coca-cola chairman Roberto Goizueta showed up to salute a group of American immigrants as they took the oath of citizenship at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. Coke's boss eloquently recalled his own family's flight from Cuba and eventual naturalization as proud Americans. Said the courtly ceo: "When my family and I came to this country, we had to leave everything behind...our photographs hung on the walls, our wedding gifts sat on the shelves...