Word: pardoner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first important act after the Inaugural will be to pardon all Viet Nam draft resisters. Then he will turn his attention to the major goals for his Administration, which he discusses in depth with TIME in an exclusive interview (see page 23). An analysis of the nation's problems and Carter's policies...
...Like any other citizen," the judge said, "these officials are charged with the knowledge of established law and must be held accountable for personal misconduct." Halperin's suit was a civil action and therefore not covered by President Ford's pardon absolving Nixon of any criminal acts that occurred during his Administration...
...difficult" to meet because the unemployment rate has risen to 8.1%. Some analysts are now talking of a 7.1% jobless rate by the end of 1977, but Carter later said he was sticking to his original promise. Concerning another pledge, Carter has not decided whether to broaden the blanket pardon that he promised to give during his first week in office to the 4,500 draft evaders of the Viet Nam War era. Carter is considering also pardoning 5,000 deserters and 85,000 former servicemen who went AWOL during the same period...
...read in some time. Though, as a native Los Angelino, I do not often kindly react to the disdain with which the "Eastern Press" regards anything coming from Southern California, I must heartily agree with Mr. Dalton's assessment of the current state of Bob Dylan and his music (pardon the run-on). Hard Rain (both the album and the TV special) was a bitter disappointment musically and aesthetically. Dylan, in the attempt to change his image from Bob Dylan the rebel to Bob Dylan the Pop Star, has succeeded monetarily, but the substance of his material lacks the energy...
...pardon-board hearing took place, like some futuristic fantasy, on television. At 9 a.m. Gilmore was led in, his tattooed wrists manacled. He wore a white prison uniform, and he looked somewhat gaunt from his twelve-day hunger strike (he has lost about 201bs...