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...Andrea Mitchell corners Baker in the Capitol Rotunda shortly before George Bush is to be sworn in as President. She wonders if Baker might himself someday be taking the oath from the Chief Justice. Baker's smile is tight and forced. "Absolutely not," he says...
Stroessner came to power as a general in a coup in 1954 and remained commander-in-chief of Paraguay's armed forces until Friday, when Rodriguez led the coup against him. Rodriguez was sworn in as president later that...
Rodriguez was sworn in as president yesterday in a coup that reportedly left scores dead. He was cheered by several thousand citizens as he took the oath of office and swore in a Cabinet...
...start of last week, he agreed to a round of TV, newspaper and magazine interviews. He was assigned by Bush to get his first taste of diplomacy on a visit to Venezuela and two to four other Latin American nations only a couple of weeks after being sworn in. Though Quayle played the traditional role of Just Barely Visible Man through most of the Inaugural ceremonies, he delivered what some advisers called his own Inaugural Address at the concluding gala Saturday night. Quayle said he had come to appreciate Winston Churchill's classic line that "nothing in life...
...Israeli army had seized in the West Bank of the Jordan River, . where many Palestinian Arabs live, in exchange for recognition and security. During that period, Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization regarded Israel itself as an integral part of the larger territory of "occupied" Palestine that they were sworn to "liberate...