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...place was a blunt, tough-talking engineer, Julius Raab, a right-winger. Raab, 61, was a charter member of the Heimwehr, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg's private fascist army back in the late '20s; in 1930 he took the famous Heimwehr oath, ". . . We reject the democratic western Parliament . . ."; in 1938 he served briefly in the pro-Nazi cabinet appointed by Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to appease Hitler, and took on the job of aligning Austria's economy with Germany's rearmament plan. During World War II, while Figl and other anti-Nazis were...
...African Rifles, led by a white officer, saw a Kikuyu woman furtively carrying sacks of food into the forest. Following the woman, the soldiers engaged a gang of 100 Mau Mau in a two-hour battle in which 24 Mau Mau were killed, including a Mau Mau oath administrator who was wearing women's clothes as a disguise...
Phillips' appropriations subcommittee picked out 500 affidavits which looked fishy, and did its own checking. It found that 336 of the patients who had taken the oath of indigence actually had incomes of $4,000 to $50,000 a year. And 25 of them owned property valued...
There is a roomful of drawings and water colors by Ingres which has been called "incomparable." David is represented by a large diagrammatic study for "The Oath of the Tennis Court" and by preliminary sketches for the scene of the crowning of the Empress Josephine by Napoleon in December...
This week Chip Bohlen took the oath of office and headed for Moscow...