Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...causes last week. State President P.W. Botha commuted the death sentences of the Sharpeville Six, five black men and one black woman sentenced under the so-called common-purpose law for joining a mob that murdered a black official in 1984. International leaders had long pleaded with Botha to pardon the six. He finally did, but they must still serve jail terms of from 18 to 25 years...
...distance himself from his former close friend, called for national forgiveness for Chun. Asked Roh: "When he himself apologized deeply, how can we stone the former President alone on the grounds that there were many mistakes in the past?" But Roh stopped short of granting his predecessor the official pardon Chun had hoped for. Roh's caution probably reflects his uncertainty about whether the Korean people are ready to forgive...
...Democrats go on missing the point? After a while -- say, a quarter-century -- a pattern begins to emerge. Since 1964 Democrats have lost every presidential election save one. And that one (Carter in '76) was a squeaker and a fluke, coming immediately after Nixon's fall, the Ford pardon and the biggest gaffe in the history of presidential debates (Ford liberating Poland...
...dissidents. Citizens want the money back or Chun on trial. The mounting pressure seems to have reached the ex-President. He is expected to go on television this week to apologize for the perfidy, which has already landed nine of his relatives in jail. In exchange for a pardon, Chun will reportedly return some of his ill-gotten gains to the government and retire to the country outside Seoul...
...drastic as you might think. I know that, sitting as I am in the Eliot House dining hall, that I'm in a minority when I say that George Bush gives me the creeping crawling willies, but as a minority I decided I had one option. Escape. "Pardon me boys, is that the Canada-border choo choo...