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...Government perjury case against Asia Expert Owen Lattimore, whom Senator Joseph R. McCarthy called "the top Soviet espionage agent in the United States." Youngdahl threw out several Government indictments against Lattimore, refused to withdraw from the case when a U.S. Attorney accused him of prejudice. Seethed Youngdahl: "Under my oath to preserve sacred constitutional principles, I can properly do no less than to strike the [Government] affidavit as scandalous...
...than his contract and tipped them off. Gambino awarded him a place on the Mafia's supreme council, the Commission, but Colombo was shunned as a stool pigeon and small-time hood by other leaders. Police speculated that his violation of the Cosa Nostra's traditional oath of silence, with his highly visible activities in the league (one aim of which was the elimination of the word Mafia from the U.S. lexicon), triggered the assassination attempt that left him almost completely paralyzed...
While the CIA has filed a civil suit against Snepp, charging that he broke his CIA oath of secrecy in publishing his Viet Nam book, the agency has not yet decided what to do about Stockwell. As for Colby, he will go public with his views of Angola and other matters in a memoir -duly cleared by the agency-that is to be published this week...
...scientist vis-à-vis the state or, in Galileo's case, the church? Brecht has Galileo (Laurence Luckinbill) castigate himself toward the end of the play for a failure of integrity: "If only I had resisted! If only the scientists could have developed something like the Hippocratic oath of the physicians, a vow to use their knowledge for the welfare of humanity alone. As it now stands, the best one can hope for is a race of inventive dwarfs who can be hired for anything...
Black leaders take an oath and praise "new realities...