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...resolution also calls on President Johnson to release "from their oaths" student leaders and others who, it said, were "sworn to silence" about financial relationships with...
...plea to the President was proposed as an amendment to Mumma's original eight point resolution by Gerhard Elston, an official of the National Council of Churches. In what Mumma calls a "good and powerful statement," Elston asked President Johnson to "recognize the dilemma of conscience of persons sworn to silence" about dealings with the intelligence agency, by releasing them from their oaths...
...done in the past. In the past 16 years, for example, two House members were allowed to serve out their terms despite conviction for payroll padding, and a third served a four-month prison term for income-tax evasion, won re-election later that year and was subsequently sworn in. Not one of these offenders was censured, let alone expelled...
...occurred with remarkable frequency and in varying forms. I shall point up a number of others later on, as they appeared in his sworn testimony, his autobiography, and other documentary sources. Chambers' special manipulation of dates, names and other symbols included among its features a magical symbol of numerical alternates. From an examination into this area it became evident that Chambers either invented or exchanged real and imagined events. Most striking was the discovery of his manipulation of birth and death dates. For example, by substituting a birth date for a death date (or vice versa) he restored to life...
...stepped Danny Escobedo, 29 (TIME Cover, April 29), who has been kindly disposed toward the law ever since 1964's Supreme Court decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, voiding his murder confession on grounds that he was denied his rights to counsel. Since his parents are Mexican, Escobedo was sworn in as an interpreter and translated the Puerto Ricans' side of the case. A few minutes later, Danny was before the court himself, and the judge dismissed a disorderly-conduct charge stemming from a street brawl last March. That still left Danny with a problem: robbery charges involving...