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...faithless friend. During the years he risked his neck plotting the overthrow of King Farouk, Nasser handpicked every one of the 14 original members of the Revolutionary Command Council, including Major Khaled Mohed-dine. Nasser knew that husky, young (33) Moheddine had been a Communist, but he accepted his oath of loyalty and his pledge to quit the Communist Party...
...retired R.A.F. officer, was pedaling his tricycle outside his home when a terrorist bounded out of the woods. The terrorist swung his panga at the child's curly head and all but decapitated the boy. Captured, the Kikuyu tribesman said he had just taken the Mau Mau oath which pledged him to behead a European...
...figures of German divorce: "Between 1948-52 we had 480,000 divorces"-105 out of every 1,000 marriages.* Then, without any other evidence to back him up, Wurmeling suggested that much of the fault lay with too lenient non-Catholic judges, who "refuse to take a religious oath." That did it. Germans of many denominations joined in denouncing Wurmeling for interfering with civil liberties, attacking the integrity of the courts, and "turning everything upside down." To soothe the ruffled Bundestag, the Minister of the Interior had to take the floor and explain that the Family Minister was "not expressing...
...first day on the job was memorable because: 1) he was ceremoniously sworn in right in the Attorney General's private office (actually no new oath was necessary ); 2) after one departmental press release announced his coming but neglected to mention his title, a second was issued to correct the oversight; 3) three Department of Justice juniors were evicted from their office so it could become Roy's private office; 4) he demanded a private cable address (denied) and a private telephone line to his old office in New York (also denied...
...usual, there were some pertinent facts that McCarthy did not mention: 1) Mrs. Moss, a 49-year-old Negro widow, had appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in closed session and under oath denied that she had ever been a member of the Communist Party, or had ever engaged in espionage; 2) she did not encode or decode anything, had no access to the Pentagon code room, and handled top-secret messages only in the form of scrambled and unreadable Teletype tape; 3) the FBI agent, while identifying her by name and address, had admittedly never seen...