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...residency] in Alabama," says Jerry. "He believed that if he killed King in Alabama or if he killed him anywhere in the South, it would help him if he showed he was a resident of Alabama ... Of course, if he killed King in Alabama, he believed Wallace would eventually pardon him, not at first but after a few years, when things had cooled...
...your pardon of Nixon, who was, in my opinion, the worst enemy the American people have ever had, and your refusal to restore full citizenship to our real Heroes: those who refused to murder, maim and wound countless millions of Asian men, women and children, not to mention the hundreds of thousands of our own Boys, who suffered a similar fate, seem to be typical of your first year as President. This I deeply deplore. The above Asian people of whom I write, Sir, have never harmed, or threatened to harm in any way our people. They could not have...
...year-old monarch's pardon was considered a gesture to appease Spain's powerful political opposition that was outlawed during 36 years of rule by Gen. Francisco Franco, who died...
Watson said that the pardon was an "attempt to achieve popular support" for Carlos's government...
...kind of promissory gesture toward the liberalization demanded by opponents of Francoism, Juan Carlos last week granted a general pardon that will affect some 70% of Spain's prison population. The royal pardon, however, will apply to only about half the estimated 2,000 prisoners who are serving sentences or awaiting trial for political offenses. Among those the decree explicitly excluded were 250 or so prisoners who have been charged with crimes of terrorism, propagandizing for terrorism or membership in Communist and separatist groups condemned under the draconian legislation approved last July by the Franco regime. The death penalty...