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President Marcos, of course, made the appointment and administered the oath of office. But Marcos' role as the most public personality in the Philippines is being challenged by Imelda. Recently Mrs. Marcos has made state visits to China and Cuba in lieu of her husband. The press these days gives almost as much attention to her charitable and cultural activities-among other things, she is the nation's chief Girl Scout and head of the Nutrition Foundation of the Philippines-as they do to President Marcos' law-and-order policies. She is responsible for a $12.5 million...
...bureau still has not determined who was responsible for destroying the note and ordering the coverup. Adams said that the bureau's three-month internal investigation has bogged down in a tangle of conflicting accounts from about 80 witnesses, who were questioned under oath by FBI inspectors. He added that they were told by Hosty that he had been ordered to destroy the note by Dallas FBI Chief J. Gordon Shanklin, who recently retired from the bureau. According to Adams, Shanklin denies knowing anything about the note...
Today, the Orange Order serves much the same purpose it did at its inception in 1795, when, threatened by Catholic peasants willing to undercut them in bids for land tenancy, Protestants united to terrorize and exclude them. The initiation oath for the Orange order still requires that members swear allegiance to the heirs to the Crown, "so long as they support the Protestant ascendancy." and each member must swear, "I am not, nor ever was a Roman Catholic or papist...
...served two years of NATO duty in Norfolk, Va. He commanded Portuguese forces in Angola from 1970 until 1972 and was armed forces chief of staff until shortly before the coup, when he and Spínola were sacked during the old regime for refusing to sign an oath of allegiance to former Premier Marcello Caetano...
...years Richard Nixon maintained almost total legal silence on his role in the Watergate scandal and a number of related matters. As President, he declined to testify under oath "on constitutional grounds." After he resigned, his phlebitis condition and a long convalescence made his testifying impossible. Last week Nixon's silence finally came to an end. Responding to a request from Watergate Special Prosecutor Henry S. Ruth, Nixon testified under oath before Ruth, several attorneys from Ruth's office, and two of the 20 members of the remaining Watergate grand jury, whose term ends this week. A total...