Word: pardoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday wasn't so hot to begin with, but for the four (pardon the repetition) Dartmouth teams that traveled to Cambridge, it was colder than that. Four made the journey, four lost--if you don't believe me then check out the rest of this page--and one turned greener than usual...
Coming from diametrically opposed viewpoints, these clashing voices illustrate the dilemma facing President-elect Carter as he prepares to carry out his campaign pledge to grant some kind of pardon to young Americans who evaded or abandoned service in the Viet Nam War. So far, these rising emotions are based only on what the pro-and anti-pardon groups think Carter will do. He expects to make his decision this week, but does not plan to reveal it until he takes office...
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...