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...After tea, the bugle sounded under the Rebellion Tree [an elm in front of Hollis], when 41 out of 70 bound themselves by an oath that they would not return to order till the four expelled members were recalled and Woodbury sent from the College." They also pledged that if Woodbury appeared next morning in chapel, they would not only remove him, but they would "thrash him severely...
...activities seemed to be tapering off. One newsletter that surfaced in Paris last week listed the locations of prison camps where some 5,937 Solidarity activists and intellectuals rounded up in the crackdown were being held. Union members in Paris also published the text of the loyalty oath that employees were being forced to sign in order to keep their jobs. The pledge stated: "Bearing in mind the fact that . .. Solidarity recently opposed the constitution and government . . . with the aim of undermining the socialist system, I hereby resign from the above-mentioned organization...
...People are asking their foreign friends not to drop by any more. The 4 a.m. knock on the door by the secret police is back in practice, although sometimes with the usual Polish twist. In at least two cases, people who were given the option of signing a loyalty oath prepared by the government or going to a detention center managed to persuade the agents who came for them to accept a more innocuously worded statement...
...Jesuits swear an oath of obedience to the papacy but, throughout their 441-year history, their independent ways and elitist style have ruffled many Popes. John Paul II, no stranger to controversy, last week took a bold step to bridle the Society of Jesus. In a move interpreted as a warning to all religious orders, he suspended the normal workings of the Jesuit Constitutions, removed the acting leader of the organization and replaced him with two Italian Jesuits who enjoy the Vatican's confidence: Paolo Dezza, 79, and Joseph Pittau...
...result, "is no longer a labor organization." It was the first time that a union representing federal employees has been decreed out of existence, though the precedent is clouded: the bulk of the union's members who struck have already been severed for violating the no-strike oath in their employment contracts. Said Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis: "The ruling reaffirms a basic principle of our democracy, that no person or organization is above...