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...concealment of reed beds on the Jordanian banks and splashed across the 30-yard-wide, green-flecked rivers with white undershirts tied to their rifles in a sign of surrender. Many also held up green I.D. cards certifying them as fedayeen, the Palestinian "men of sacrifice" who are sworn to destroy Israel...
...tempered Dom Mintoff, 54, made that promise just before taking the oath as Malta's second Prime Minister since it became an independent member of the British Commonwealth in 1964. In the three weeks since then, he has shown that he meant business. The day after he was sworn in by the British Governor General, Sir Maurice Dorman, he called on Sir Maurice and told him: "The people here would like to have a Maltese as Governor General." "When would you like me to resign?" asked Dorman. "Tomorrow morning," said Mintoff, although he later relented and gave Sir Maurice...
...Traditional Mafia Way The brotherhood that is the Mafia has always operated in secrecy. Sworn to an omertd ? the oath of silence ? in a ceremony of blood and fire, the old-line Mafiosi cultivated their anonymity as the first line of defense against ar rest and prosecution. Despite the publicity caused by Prohibition gangland wars, the Mafia was still able to maintain a cloak of secrecy around its activities. Behind this shield, Mafia leaders gained control of gambling and narcotics, some labor unions and legitimate businesses. When the first systematic crackdowns by law-enforcement agencies started ten years...
...begin with, there was the survival of the regime in Saigon. It was a regime that past American policy-makers had installed and then sworn to uphold, and though the new American leaders probably had little real use for General Thieu-and were suffering the domestic consequences of what little use they had-they also felt it essential that no American policy precipitate the collapse of the South Vietnamese regime. For that would impugn their honor and damage their credibility, and those were concepts that did not come cheap to them. And in the absence of the regime's guaranteed...
Levy also told the CRR panel that he had sworn at Ross prior to the meeting after Ross had told an SDS member who was making an announcement on stage to "shut up." He accused Ross of "lying with some malice" in his testimony...