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...former President Gerald R. Ford's last day in office, Peter H. Irons, a second-year law student, received Ford's pardon for having refused to register for the draft...
What Carter promised was a blanket pardon "for those who violated Selective Service laws." This presumably would include all those civilians who fled the country to avoid the draft, simply failed to register or refused to submit to induction. As for those who deserted after induction or enlistment, Carter said each case "should be handled on an individual basis in accordance with our nation's system of military justice." That seemed to imply that military officials, hardly lenient in such matters, would have to process all of these desertion cases and try to decide what was in each person...
After studying all the numbers and complexities for several weeks, the Carter pardon team, headed by Houston Lawyer David H. Berg, has made its recommendations to Charles Kirbo, the President-elect's key transition adviser...
...presented them in writing to Carter last week. Kirbo says he does not know what the final shape of the Carter program will be, but he doubted that a blanket pardon would be extended to deserters. The probability seemed to be that Carter would pardon all the civilian draft evaders, including those already convicted of the crime, but find some means of dealing with the military cases-both deserters and holders of punitive discharges-on an individual review basis...
...Sweden, now home to only about 300 American war resisters-down from 800 at the peak in 1970-71-many of the holdouts are in or approaching their 30s and deeply involved in new occupations and growing families. For them, no pardon program has much practical consequence. Few desire to return. "I consider Sweden home," says David Hoyt, 31, a draft evader from Boston now teaching English in public schools and working as an interpreter...