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Under an arrangement worked out during an all-night meeting, Avraham Shalom, the central figure in the controversy, resigned as director of Shin Bet, Israel's domestic security agency. He was immediately granted a pardon by President Chaim Herzog...
Jurists, legal scholars and the Israeli press were appalled by Herzog's pardon of Shalom before he was charged with any wrongdoing. The decision was a departure from past practice, in which Presidents have pardoned only convicted criminals. Like Peres and Shamir, Herzog maintained that an investigation might have made sensitive information public. Said he: "I had to take the responsibility and decide, based on the public's welfare as I see it, according to my knowledge and conscience...
...Flowers (1943). Scandalized, the eminent critic Paul Valery declared, "This must be burned." Others strongly disagreed. In 1948, when Genet faced a life term as a repeat offender, Sartre, Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau and other literati circulated a petition protesting the sentence. It won Genet a presidential pardon...
Freshman, a History and Government concentrator, recently received national attention for his thesis on the executive clemency of Georgia factory owner Leo Frank. Frank was convicted in 1913 of murdering a 13-year-old girl. Last month, Freshman's thesis helped gain a posthumous pardon for Frank...
...billion. But many in Washington doubt that tax dodgers can be enticed into paying up. Since studies indicate that most people who take advantage of state amnesties faithfully file U.S. tax returns, presumably because of stricter enforcement at the federal level, the House Budget Committee reckons that a federal pardon might raise only $1 billion to $2 billion. Critics of an amnesty, including the IRS, contend that the extra revenue would be canceled out by increased evasion from scofflaws banking on similar programs in the future. "Even if an amnesty is successful, it is a short-term benefit," said Republican...