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...answer is yes. The leaders of the party agreed that we should start identifying even those who belong to the opposition who can be depended upon to swear that they would not allow Communism to take over the republic. There is no limit to the number, of course, of the members of the ruling party who aspire to the presidency. Many of them are highly qualified. I think it is a wise decision for the leadership not to speak of this kind of succession unless and until we are through with the 1986 and 1987 elections...
...sporadic and scattered. In Acapulco, the flashy Pacific resort town, the tropical sun had just begun to burn through the coastal clouds when the high-rise hotels that line the city's main avenue began to sway. Panicked tourists, many in nightgowns and robes, rushed into hotel lobbies. "I swear to God I thought my room was going to split in half," said one visitor from Dallas at the Hyatt Regency Excelaris. Hotel Worker Heriverto Flores was at home eating breakfast with his wife. "Tremors are nothing new to us," he said. "But this one was so hard...
There follows the suspicion that making it is the only American morality. But no -- it can't be that simple. The first tangible hint of American moral attitudes comes on the immigration form: the solemn requirement to swear that you are not a Communist, or not a prostitute, or whatever. To those coming from older and more cynical societies, this is the utmost sort of naivete. For the immigrant, it foreshadows the American conviction that one can mandate, even legislate morality. That conviction represents an amalgam of Puritanism, with its belief in a permanently flawed human nature, and the Enlightenment...
Within a month he had persuaded two prominent members of the influential local German community to swear, falsely, that he had resided in the country for five years and to sponsor him for citizenship. On Nov. 27, 1959, he was issued nationality card No. 293348 and took up residence in Paraguay under the name Jose Mengele. For the most part, he stayed in the lush farm country around Hohenau, near the Brazilian border, where, according to Alejandro von Eckstein, one of the men who sponsored him for citizenship, he remained "very reserved and very melancholy...
DIED. Sarah Tilghman Hughes, 88, diminutive (5 ft. 1 in.), outspokenly liberal Dallas federal district judge who became the only woman ever to swear in a U.S. President when Lyndon Johnson, an old friend, summoned her to officiate aboard Air Force One after John Kennedy's assassination in 1963; of the effects of a stroke; in Dallas...