Word: swore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kneeling before a crucifix in the palace, the four-man junta swore itself into office. The soldiers then suspended all constitutional guarantees, dissolved Congress, arrested Electoral Tribunal officials "for trial," and promised "clean and pure elections" on June 9, 1963. Haya and other leaders of his party fled underground. The APRA-controlled Workers Confederation declared a general strike for this week. Crowds that gathered before the palace to shout "Viva la libertad!" and "Down with the junta!" were beaten with truncheons by police or routed with tear...
...Susini over the air: "The Secret Army has ceased fighting." But diehards in the provincial cities refused to accept the inevitable, even though, in a letter from his prison cell, the captured leader of the S.A.O., ex-General Raoul Salan, backed the truce. The fanatical S.A.O. leadership in Oran swore to continue the struggle. S.A.O. mortar shells landed on oil tanks near Oran. In Bone, the city hall was put to the torch by S.A.O. fanatics. The exodus of Europeans continued at the rate...
...from M.I.6, Britain's overseas intelligence branch, the government learned that the Red queens-they have long since parted-might be leaving Moscow, swore out warrants for their arrest under Britain's Official Secrets Act. At week's end, after checking every train, plane and ship from Russia, British police and intelligence agents from Accra to Zanzibar were still waiting. Some highly placed Britons hoped they would wait a long, long time...
...stream of messengers came and went, bearing bulletins. Arturo Frondizi, 53, President of Argentina and currently his country's most unpopular man, was waiting to see whether he would be allowed to remain as elected Chief Executive of South America's second big gest nation. Frondizi swore he would remain: "Only my person stands between order and chaos." The decision was not his to make. It lay in the uncertain outcome of events he himself had set in motion across Argentina - a crucial congressional election whose terms he had set in expectation of victory and in defeat...
...They had data so insufficient that they shouldn't have made any claims," Leet said the other day in reference to the fourteen man advisory committee, "but they swore by their findings. The Russians took one look at the stuff, and laughed. And by God they were right. Any good seismologist would have laughed." So at that turning point in 1958, it was the scientists, not the diplomats, who were irreconcilable...