Word: sworn
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...brief weeks in 1984, Gary Hart, running an outsider campaign, was the sworn enemy of the so-called Democratic establishment. Most state chairmen attacked Hart for scorning traditional Democratic values to run a campaign of "new ideas...
Last week, in a surprise move, Barrantes retired from the race, possibly fearing an overwhelming defeat for the far left in a second round of balloting. His action opens the way for Garcia to be sworn in as successor to President Fernando Belaunde Terry on July 28 in Peru's first transfer of power from one elected government to another in 40 years. Barrantes' decision to pull out came 36 hours after guerrillas, believed to be from the Maoist movement known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), machine-gunned a car carrying the country's chief election officer, Domingo Garcia Rada...
...more than three weeks, Brazil has been in a state of suspended animation, while the life of its President-elect has hung in the balance. Only hours before Neves was to be sworn in on March 15 as Brazil's first civilian President after 21 years of military rule, he had to undergo emergency surgery for diverticulitis, an inflammation of the intestinal tract. The operation appeared to be successful, but Neves soon had to go under the knife again, this time to remove a blockage caused by the first procedure. He seemed on his way to recovery once more, when...
...abstained in the vote last week, charged that as acting President, Alevras was not eligible to vote, even though Papandreou had obtained parliamentary permission for him to do so. With no legally prescribed procedure on the books for deciding the question, Sartzetakis, a former Supreme Court Justice, was sworn in late last week; New Democracy members boycotted the ceremony...
...triggered by an Assembly vote to remove five of nine Supreme Court judges, all friends of the President, for alleged corruption. The high court is appointed by the legislature, and the dismissals were linked to political maneuvering in anticipation of national elections next November. After five new Justices were sworn in by a defiant Assembly, Suazo Cordova reportedly issued arrest orders for all of them; authorities detained Ramon Valladares Soto, who had been appointed Chief Justice, and charged him with treason. At week's end a Western observer described the situation in Tegucigalpa as "very fragile...