Word: swore
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...named Gerard John Schaefer Jr., a former Martin County deputy sheriff. He was serving a one-year term in the county jail for picking up two hitchhiking girls, binding them and threatening them with hanging. Schaefer said he had never seen the Place girl; Mrs. Place swore he was the "Jerry Shephard" who had driven off with...
...Arab leaders, the one most openly furious about the Khartoum massacre was Sudan's President Jaafar Numeiry. In a bitter, bristling 45-minute speech over Sudanese radio and television, Numeiry swore that the eight Black Septembrists would be tried and punished for "a crime we will not forgive." They had committed, he charged, "a criminal, rash action devoid of revolutionary spirit and bravery...
...discredit the show. Witnesses against Herbert have told him that they are ready to testify that they were forced to make their statements. Barry Lando, who did most of the "research," turns out to be a writer who asked to co-author Herbert's book, and when rejected swore, before several witnesses, that he would 'get even...
...organized U.S. crime, at last got his comeuppance, or at least some of his comeuppance. On the lam from the IRS since 1970, he was refused Israeli citizenship. Lansky finally returned to Miami to face trial on a criminal contempt charge-for failure to obey a subpoena. Lansky swore that his doctor had declared him too ill to make the long trip home. Nonetheless, the jury found him guilty. Now Lansky faces a charge of income tax evasion and one of skimming the profits off Las Vegas casinos, both with long-term sentences. After posting bonds totaling...
...leader of the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, he had gone to good schools (Brown, Cambridge, Northwestern Law), and married the daughter of former Mayor Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration had been plagued by scandal...