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Larry Simon, professor of constitutional law at the University of Southern California, opposes any Iran-contra pardons, but he sees no moral issue involved. Since pardons by definition go to the guilty, he says, there is no way to argue the ethics of who deserves one and who does not. But Michael Josephson, a former Loyola law professor who now heads his own ethics institute in Los Angeles, notes an important distinction. A pardon, he believes, should never be issued by a person involved in the case, as Reagan is in the Iran-contra scandal. No President ever seems...
...member governing board, Craig joins 10 official University-nominated candidates, who include Iran-Contra Prosecutor Arthur L. Liman '54. A slate of five petition candidates, sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Alumni Against Apartheid (HRAAA), is also running for the Board this year...
...President was determined to forge the contras into a weapon against the Marxist Sandinistas, but his shifting rationales for what he was doing undermined his credibility. When opposition from Congress kept him from supporting the contras openly, he tried to do so covertly. The Iran-contra scandal that ensued aggravated widespread public uneasiness over U.S. policy toward Managua and hastened the end of congressional funding for the rebels...
...other elements of the Iran-contra scandal will continue to play out even as the Reagan Administration is eclipsed by the election campaign. Last year public opinion was divided about whether the Iran-contra mess was a political dispute or a serious abuse of power. The charges against North and his associates mean that a jury must decide whether this national hero, as Reagan called him, is simply a criminal. North and Poindexter could be standing trial on Election Day, and the evidence against them -- as well as the suspicion that the President will pardon them -- could play a pivotal...
...Administration and the public alike have done their best to draw attention elsewhere. North and the other characters in the Iran-contra drama dropped from sight after last summer's congressional hearings, and the House- Senate investigation seemed to come to an inconclusive end marked by partisan sniping. The Wall Street Crash and last December's Reagan-Gorbachev summit concentrated the nation's mind on larger matters. If the Iran-contra scandal has been a refrain in Democratic primary campaigns, and a stick that rivals have used to attack Bush, voters have seemed more interested in determining who can best...