Word: oaths
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Jesse Helms must be in pig paradise. Last year the Senator from North Carolina huffed and tut-tutted about state-supported pornography until a cowed Congress mandated that artists sign a purity oath before receiving federal funds. Now he gets to watch the sorry spectacle of a few theater people conspiring to prevent an actor from plying his craft. With all the best intentions, they are doing Helms' proscriptive work for him and proving that you don't have to be a philistine to get the censor's itch; in the process they threaten to deprive many actors of good...
...Elliott Abrams, an ardent proponent of the contra cause. Prosecutor Walsh will decide by fall whether or not to bring additional indictments. If he does, that could lead to new questions about how much Bush knew of the illegal operation and when he knew it. Bush has denied under oath that he was aware of the operation...
...aside after a court hearing. That led indignant sports columnist J. Theodore Diadiun to write in the Lake County News-Herald: "Anyone who attended the meet . . . knows in his heart that Milkovich and ((school superintendent H. Donald)) Scott lied at the hearing after each having given his solemn oath to tell the truth. But they got away with it. Is that the kind of lesson we want our young people learning...
...separatism is concerned, I've already answered. As for my view on the development of our federation, I'm speaking about the Baltics almost every day. We're seeking a political solution, and we're doing so precisely at this moment. As President, I took an oath of office to uphold the constitution. Certain anticonstitutional developments are taking place. They began just as we started our Congress of People's Deputies. The congress considered the situation, declared the decisions of the Lithuanian parliament illegal and instructed me as President to uphold the constitution. As I said to Senator ((George)) Mitchell...
...Franklin-Lipsker took the stand to tell her story under oath for the first time, she looked utterly normal, an attractive California suburbanite reminiscent in her demeanor and tightly pulled-back hair of Maureen Dean sitting primly behind her husband John during the Watergate hearings. Father and daughter avoided looking at each other. But when Eileen sheepishly admitted that she considered undergoing hypnosis for weight loss (hypnosis- induced memories are inadmissible in California criminal trials), George Franklin smiled and tried to catch his daughter's eye, as if he saw for a moment his pudgy little girl, not the accuser...