Word: pardons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North assigned more than 100,000 vanquished southerners to indefinite sentences in "re-education" camps. Last week officials in Hanoi announced a sweeping amnesty for 6,685 inmates of the camps and other prisons, including 480 military and civilian officials of the former U.S.-backed Saigon government. The mass pardon was one of the largest since the end of the Viet...
...contra scandal is effectively over. By taking responsibility for the Iran-contra diversion, John Poindexter helped save the President, and Oliver North's star performance blurred the moral issues involved. Now some are calling for a conclusive gesture that they hope will close the book on Iranscam: a presidential pardon of Poindexter and North...
...fact that officials who had sought to pursue his policies were languishing in jail. The public seems to agree. According to a Washington Post/ABC News poll last week, 61% of Americans believe that Reagan should absolve North before he can be prosecuted and 46% favored a pre-emptive pardon for Poindexter...
Many members of Congress argue that pardoning North and Poindexter would display contempt for the justice system and for the idea that Government officials are accountable to the law. Said Stokes: "The President would make a very serious mistake, and I think it would be resented by the American public." But for the President, perhaps the most persuasive argument against a pardon is that it would compromise the presumption of innocence to which North and Poindexter are entitled under the law. "The best thing that could happen now from Ronald Reagan's standpoint would be indictment and acquittal," says...
...have to pardon former men's basketball Co-Captain Arne Duncan if he misses Commencement this year. He's got a date that day, on a basketball, court in New Jersey with the New Jersey Jammers of the United States Basketball League...