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...unprecedented 2 1/2-hour session at the White House, the President and the First Lady were interrogated separately under oath by Whitewater special counsel Robert Fiske about the suicide of deputy White House counsel Vincent Foster and a series of Administration discussions regarding the investigation of the S&L at the center of the Whitewater affair. The Senate later voted to hold hearings next month on the same matters -- the least controversial aspects of the Whitewater case -- while Republicans continued to press for a wider inquiry...
Stephen Wechsler '49 was drafted to participate in the Korean War in 1951, at the height of the "Red scare." Because he feared persecution for his involvement in leftist groups while at Harvard and afterward, he lied about his Communist activities when faced with the loyalty oath required of all draftees under the McCarran...
...public eye, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' heroism is imprinted through indelible images: at L.B.J.'s side, with a gaze more eloquent than any words, as he took the oath of office; gripping Robert Kennedy's hand and then her children's; receiving the flag that had covered J.F.K.'s coffin. But what of the woman beyond the camera's range? There are no pictures of her heartbreak and bravery at Parkland. Yet that was somehow...
...beat her and threatened her with a knife. "There's a lot of women in here married to soldiers whose sergeants protect them if they're good soldiers," she says. "They can't control their superiors on the job, so they control us." Although her husband admitted under oath last month in a Texas courtroom that he is married to two women, he remains in the Army. "He was under a lot of stress and was nervous about being kicked out," she says. "He said if he didn't get his sergeant's stripes, I was going to get hurt...
Millionaire businessman Silvio Berlusconi, 57, took the oath of office as Prime Minister of Italy's 53rd post-World War II government. He named a Cabinet that included, as expected, members of the neo-Fascist National Alliance...