Word: sworn
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Though the date has not been officially set, Mulroney is expected to be sworn in early next week. After moving to 24 Sussex Drive, the Prime Minister's official residence in Ottawa, only two months ago, Turner and his family will have to start packing again. One of Turner's last duties will be to play host to Pope John Paul II as he begins an eleven-day visit to Canada this week. Turner, a Roman Catholic, planned to be on hand for the Pope's arrival in Quebec City on Sunday...
...fined the Ferraro campaign $750 for the violation, after accepting the sworn statements of Zaccaro, who served as campaign manager, and the committee treasurer that they had been assured that the loans were proper by David Stein, a former FEC attorney. Last week Stein issued a statement claiming that he informally advised the Ferraro campaign that "I did not believe that it would be permissible" to accept large family loans. Zaccaro and the campaign treasurer continued to stick to their original account...
Muammar Gaddafi is the sworn enemy of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak, as the prime suspect. Central to this view is the fact that a Libyan cargo ship, the Ghat, entered the northern end of the canal on July 6, then traveled southward through the canal and the Gulf of Suez to the Ethiopian port of Assab on the Red Sea, where it unloaded its cargo and eventually headed back toward the canal. According to Egyptian officials, that round trip should have taken the Ghat about eight days. In fact, it took 15 days. Long before the Ghat left...
...Western diplomats were surprised last week when Gaddafi signed a "union of states" agreement with Morocco's King Hassan II. The two nations are the region's oddest couple. While Libya is a radical socialist state, Morocco is a traditional monarchy; while Gaddafi is a sworn enemy of the U.S., Hassan is a firm ally...
...quiet the controversy, the Hatfields turned over their records to the Senate Ethics Committee. Former associates of Tsakos also filed sworn statements to the committee, charging that the financier had tried to buy Hatfield's support for the pipeline. The chronology of events is awkward for the Hatfields: the final check for $10,000 was delivered only days after the Senator wrote a letter to Tsakos supporting the project...