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Rushdie, 41, apologized Saturday for any distress the publication of his book caused to Moslems, after Iranian President Ali Khamanei indicated that could lead to a pardon...
...Louisiana. Monroe was convicted of murdering Lenora Collins in her bed one steamy summer night in 1977. Despite a lack of physical evidence and a jailhouse suggestion by a man in Michigan that he committed the crime, Louisiana Governor Buddy Roemer has not acted on the recommendation of his pardon board that the sentence be commuted to life in prison. Instead, Roemer will wait to see if the courts get him off the hook before he makes a final decision. It will be a final decision. With the death penalty, guilty or not, there is no taking it back...
...players. On the one hand, the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who oozed patriotism from misty eyes during the congressional hearings, threatened to reveal some of the nation's most sensitive secrets if the trial proceeds. President Reagan, who has declared North innocent, said last week that he will not pardon his ex-NSC aide in advance of a trial but neither will he allow many of the classified documents to be aired in court. If that means some charges against North have to be dropped, the President implied...
Asked in effect whether the White House was in collusion with North, Reagan insisted, "The things we're blocking are the things that duty requires we block." He would not pardon North before a trial, he said, because anyone accepting a pardon would live "under a shadow of guilt." Since Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell hopes to start the trial in late January, any pardon after a possible conviction would have to come from the new President, George Bush...
PRESIDENT Reagan announced recently that neither Adm. John Pointdexter nor Lt. Col. Oliver North will receive a pardon. Will their trial be a witch hunt? Should they expect long person terms? A key precedent can be found in what happened to Pointdexter's and North's Iranian counterparts...