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Clinton should also pardon Susan McDougal and make her Secretary of Defense. Not that she'd have any clue how to run the Pentagon, but she deserves something for keeping her mouth shut. Finally, if Janet Reno leaves, Hillary Clinton should become Attorney General. That would make the messy business of Whitewater, Travelgate and Filegate that much easier to cover...
Hillary's husband was no help in keeping Whitewater issues quiet. In a TV interview with Jim Lehrer of the Public Broadcasting System, the President was asked about possible pardons for Jim and Susan McDougal, onetime owners of Madison Guaranty and co-investors with the Clintons in Whitewater, and Jim Guy Tucker, Bill Clinton's successor as Governor of Arkansas. All three have been convicted of fraud in cases brought by Kenneth Starr, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Clinton replied, "I've given no consideration" to pardons; then he described in some detail the procedure he would follow...
Similarly, Browne supports the legalization of drugs and the elimination of the drinking age. The Libertarian platform acknowledges that the "war on drugs" is becoming increasingly costly to finance, due largely to criminal violence. Browne promises to pardon every convicted non-violent drug user on his first day in office...
...death sentence is automatic. TIME's Stella Kim reports from Seoul that there is widespread speculation that President Kim may offer both men some form of clemency after the appeals process plays out, probably in mid-1997. President Kim must weigh the effect on public opinion of clemency or pardon, TIME's Kim notes, because his party faces national elections next December. "One legal scholar said that if President Kim abused his right to grant clemency, then the moral lesson taught by this trial would be useless." But there are many who feel some sympathy for the men. Given that...
...written in 1940 when he was 23 and in the army, has been auctioned for $7,600. Premier Accord is the story of a young man's love for Elsa, who is "supple, gay, effervescent...a Persian at the sword, her pink curves like a jar of hair cream." Pardon...