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...face, a spokesman for the Illinois State Rifle Association said, "It is safe to say anyone who voted for the ban is someone we'll be looking to replace." Hyde says he has already been handed a picture of Hitler, compared to Marshall Petain and accused of betraying his oath. The experience has made him wonder whether "people can honestly change their minds and still be fellow citizens and deserve space on this planet." The N.R.A. will let him know...
Asked if he would have Clinton repeat his denial under oath, Bennett stopped short. "That's a very premature question," he said. The Administration is hoping the case will be dismissed before it comes to that. Bennett will argue that the charges were filed too late for the federal statute Clinton is accused of violating. Moreover, Bennett suggested last week that he will move to dismiss the case on grounds that a sitting President cannot be sued on matters that occurred before he took office. Unless the courts buy that argument swiftly, however, Bennett's client...
...story revolves around David Williams, an American history professor under siege by his colleagues and the board of trustees for his refusal to sign a loyalty oath. Played by Jason Cooper, David evinces all the moist-eyed idealism of a true patriot; in both his home and classroom, he has large portraits of his personal hero, Abraham Lincoln, and teaches to his students a mixture of red-white-and-blue rhetoric and history. His wife Elisabeth (Amy Brown) and daughter Joanne (Genevieve Roach) complete the wholesome family portrait. But a closer inspection of the Williams reveals the growing stress fractures...
...listened to the eulogies on that clouded and chilly California afternoon last week when Nixon was buried beside his wife Pat at the Nixon library and birthplace in Yorba Linda. Ford was Nixon's closest political colleague. "I treasured his friendship," Ford said later. "When I took the oath of office in the well of the House in 1949, the very first person who came up to shake my hand was Dick Nixon...
...Amato denies under oath knowing about the "1% rule," by which government workers in Nassau County, New York, were coerced into kicking back 1% of their salaries as contributions to the Republican Party...