Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thousands of criminal offenders routinely petition the President of the U.S. for a pardon. Provided they have served their jail terms, stayed clean for five to seven years, and filled in a four-page form explaining their case, a pardon may be forthcoming -- but the process is likely to take at least three years. Chances are, though, that if Oliver North and his co-defendants in the Iranscam scandal receive pardons, the deal will not happen quite that way. President Reagan will probably grant their petitions with the stroke of a pen, without a three-year wait and perhaps even...
...charges against North and his associates mean that a jury must decide whether this national hero, as Reagan called him, is simply a criminal. North and Poindexter could be standing trial on Election Day, and the evidence against them -- as well as the suspicion that the President will pardon them -- could play a pivotal role in George Bush's campaign for the White House. So could North's attempts to subpoena Reagan and Bush, which he hinted at Friday...
...seized 80 students and four of their teachers. "There are people on the street who don't have a place to sleep or anything to eat," shouted Harvey. "I am doing this for them." After twelve hours, Harvey fell for Alabama Governor Guy Hunt's false promise of a pardon. He released his prisoners, was arrested, and, with Rhodes, now possibly faces life in prison for kidnaping...
...talking. The White House is on edge; no one knows what secrets North holds or whom he may implicate in the scandal. In this atmosphere of high anxiety, North's attorney, Brendan Sullivan, meets with Reagan's special counselor on Iranscam, David Abshire. Sullivan's objective: a presidential pardon for his client...
...television, been protest candidates of a sort. Hart represents an entirely new species: for all the merit of many of his stands on issues, his candidacy can only be understood as a passionate protest against his self-inflicted political fate. In a sense, Hart is questing after a national pardon, but he is too proud and too stiff-necked...