Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irons said yesterday he applied for the pardon in September 1974, when Ford announced a clemency program for Vietnam draft resisters who performed alternate service...
...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...
Comment from the Justice Department staff and Ford's transition team was unavailable yesterday, but a White House spokesman said Ford pardoned "a very small number of draft resisters," and that most of them performed some kind of alternate service in return for the pardon...
...didn't expect to get a pardon from Ford," Irons said. "I was doing it partly to harrass them, and partly to make a political point...
...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...