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Scandal has spread to that bastion of model morality, the Boy Scouts of America. Last week the organization acknowledged that leaders in at least ten local councils had ignored the Scout oath to be "mentally awake and morally straight," and padded their membership rolls with tentfuls of nonexistent boys...
...Well, he in time may come to clear himself... he with his oath ... will make up full clear, whensoever he is convented." -Measure for Measure...
...confirmation hearings last September, Kissinger told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee under oath that he "never recommended" the wiretapping, though he knew about it and "went along with it to the extent of supplying the names of people who had had access to the sensitive documents." He also claimed ignorance of formation of the plumbers unit and the fact that one of his former aides, David Young, was working for it. Part of those hearings were conducted hi private, and the transcript contains some ambiguity...
...Federal Republic should do much to allay those fears. Less than two weeks after Willy Brandt stunned his countrymen by suddenly resigning as Chancellor, a new government was functioning smoothly in Bonn. Last Thursday, in the modern and austere Bundestag chambers, Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt, 55, took the oath as West Germany's fifth Chancellor...
...jury for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on their oath present that Kenneth Edelin ... did assault and beat a certain person, to wit: a male child described to the said jurors as baby boy (blank) and by such assault and beating did kill the said person...