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Congressman Daniel Crane, 47, in a brief written apology, said, "I'm sorry that I made a mistake. I'm human, and in no way did I violate my oath of office. I only hope my wife and children will forgive me." Crane, a dentist from Danville, came to Capitol Hill in 1979. A year later, he and a female House page, then 17, had sex four or five times at his suburban apartment. The page, testifying that she "found the Congressman as an older man very attractive," admitted that she was "perhaps more responsible for the sexual...
...Black students have formed new types of groups such as the Percy C. Julian Society, a Black pre-med support group, and intercollegiate Black fraternities and sororities. By the late 1970s, Gomes explains, "diversity within the Black community meant that not everyone thought they had to take a loyalty oath to the BSA." Whereas it was once a fair assumption that Black students wanted to be defined by and incorporated into the Black community, it is no longer true that Blacks automatically want this affiliation...
...conventional forces with the Soviet Union's and so deprive domestic programs of funding? Must Catholics be conscientious objectors, since U.S. defense depends on "immoral" deterrence? What about the moral implications of succumbing to the evil rule of a godless dictator? Could a Catholic President seriously take the oath of office to protect the U.S. from foreign attacks? Our bishops must not leave millions of Catholics in this moral dilemma. We have heard their objection to our defense system and are now awaiting realistic alternatives...
...sentenced to 20 months to seven years in jail April 6 by a Washington, D.C., superior court judge for lying under oath about receiving documents ordering him to make repairs to rental properties he owned there. --The University of Maryland Diamondback
Thus, no matter who took the oath of office on the Capitol steps in January 1981, the prospects were bleak for progress in either strategic or intermediate-range arms control. But Reagan had an opportunity to turn the situation around. Americans, allies and Soviet leaders alike were fed up with the dithering of Carter and were ready for some old-fashioned conservatism, tempered by common sense and self-confidence. Instead, Reagan made a bad situation worse with his rhetoric suggesting implacable hostility to the Soviet Union and his deep mistrust of the very idea of arms control...