Word: vows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's New England Journal of Medicine, William J. Curran, 52, professor of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Ward Casscells, 28, a resident at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, maintain that death by injection, however carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which all doctors vow never to harm their patients willfully. In fact, the oath specifically forbids using or suggesting the use of poisons. The policy adopted by Oklahoma tries to avoid any conflict with medical ethics by requiring "trained medical employees" to insert a drug-carrying catheter and inject the lethal substance. But does...
November 15: California, Massachusetts and Texas secede from Union. Presidents Brown, Kennedy and Connally vow to continue fight against Carter, form Triple Alliance...
...Moscow can hardly ignore the opportunity presented by Khomeini's rise. An Iran sliding into anarchy, and a Middle East shaken by the furies of Khomeini's followers, would offer the Soviets a chance to substitute their own influence for the Western presence that the Ayatullah's admirers vow to expel. And the Middle East is an unparalleled geopolitical prize...