Word: sworn
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...answer, in a sworn affidavit, was a flat no-but that was back on Dec. 16, 1963, when Jenkins was a top White House aide. Last week Jenkins answered again-and this time his no was a lot less than flat. He had meant on that other occasion that he had not known "of the specifics for the purchase of advertising." But "I did know Mr. Reynolds planned to purchase advertising time, and I have never asserted the contrary...
...President makes no secret of the fact that he is furious at leaks of any kind; because of them, he has postponed appointments, even changed programs. Members of his staff, sworn to silence on pain of presidential wrath, know better than to be seen chatting with a newsman. The press feud has culminated, noted Columnist Joe Alsop, in an "almost hysterical secretiveness which the Johnson Administration has been carrying to extremes quite unimagined in any previous American Government...
...provide federal funds matching state payments to pay for the premiums under existing private insurance plans of medical care. Like Kerr-Mills, it would set up a means test to determine whether elderly persons could afford their own medical care. Unlike Kerr-Mills, it would require only a simple sworn statement of inability to pay, not a full-scale welfare investigation...
Four Harvard students and five other witnesses with first hand Mississippi voter registration experience gave sworn depositions at a special hearing in the State House today concerning the hardships suffered by Negroes attempting to vote in that state...
Actually, the crime may have been rooted in a blood feud between two warring tribes. In the hands of Burundi police was Gonsalve Muyenzi, 24, a Watutsi tribesman, a refugee from neighboring Rwanda, and thus a sworn enemy of Ngendandumwe, who happened to be a member of the Bahutu tribe. For centuries the Bahutu had served the towering Watutsi aristocrats (some measure 7 ft. or more) as cattle-tending serfs on the alpine slopes of the former Belgian colony Ruanda-Urundi. Independence, in 1962, established a tribal equality of sorts, but both Bahutu and Watutsi quickly sought more than that...