Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...EPWs have told interrogators that their company commanders were held directly accountable for desertions and that all troops were forced to sign an oath promising not to defect. Some EPWs told of seeing fellow soldiers hanged by loyalist execution squads and left suspended as a warning to would-be runaways...
Dershowitz, a high-profile defense attorney and civil libertarian, said in a letter he would ask the council to question nominee Paul Mahoney--now the chief aide to Senate President William M. Bulger--under oath about alleged comments concerning Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate...
...question: What do men really want? His omission may reflect the male fascination with the enigma of woman over the mystery of man. She owns the center of his imagination, while the fate of man works the margins. Perhaps this is why so many men have taken the Mafia oath of silence about their hopes and fears. Strong and silent remain de rigueur...
...settle into a modest one-bedroom apartment that the Justice-to-be found, with Rudman's help, within walking distance of the court. Souter's few sticks of furniture and more numerous stacks of books will be trucked down by friends from Weare, N.H., after the Justice takes his oath of office this week. "Nearly every lawyer and friend in New Hampshire wants a ticket to the ceremony," says Souter's longtime confidant, Tom Rath, a former state attorney general...
When F.W. De Klerk took his oath of office one year ago, few predicted that the cautious and conservative lawyer would move so quickly toward ending the scourge of apartheid. But since then De Klerk has been cheered by blacks during a tour of Soweto and booed by right-wing white students at the University of Pretoria...