Word: swore
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...Benigno Aquino, who was Marcos' chief political rival. Marcos estimates that the Communist New People's Army has only about 9,000 armed troops, and he proudly pointed last week to a ceremony in which 45 alleged former Communist guerrillas surrendered to the government and 3,000 purported sympathizers swore allegiance to him. The Administration's Armitage, on the other hand, last week put the rebel ranks closer to 16,500. In addition, military unity has begun to fray. While acting Chief of Staff General Fidel Ramos has attempted to discipline soldiers and retrain many of the country...
...million strong, one out of every three Americans, the largest generation in U.S. history. Next year the oldest of them will turn 40. The generation that could hum TV jingles before it could hum the national anthem, that made rock 'n' roll and protest into rites of passage, and swore never to trust anyone over 30, is becoming middle-aged...
...earth air, the 22-year-old explains that her naturalistic yearnings began while exploring forests near her home and leading field trips through a wildlife park. Jamie R. Jenkins '85, a four-year roommate of Rosegrant, recalls noticing tinges of the anthropologist/explorer Jane Goodall in her cohabitant. "We all swore that she would go to Borneo with an anthropologist to study primates...
...recanted the testimony they had made before the Agrava board, whose reports to President Ferdinand Marcos led to the trial. One witness, an airline employee, said at first that he had seen someone pointing a gun at the back of Aquino's head on the plane ramp; later he swore that before the shooting, a gun had been pointed at him and he had fainted. Even Galman's stepdaughter recanted after having told the Agrava board that her mother disappeared, following a summons from General Ver, three months after the shooting. The Galman family lawyer charged that representatives...
Momentarily fazed, the Brazilians decided to go ahead with the transfer of power anyway, if in a less exuberant fashion. Inauguration parades were canceled, but Neves' Vice President, Jose Sarney, 54, took his oath of office as planned. Sarney then swore in Neves' 28-member Cabinet and prepared to serve as acting President until Neves finally takes his own oath, possibly this week...