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...Each. Persuaded that Adams had "information that would be very difficult to recount without knowledge of the commission of the crime," Askew earlier this month concluded that "substantial doubt exists as to the guilt of Pitts and Lee." He recommended that they be given a full pardon. Under Florida law, the Governor needed the concurrence of at least three of his cabinet officers, who are independently elected. Last week the third O.K. came, and Pitts, 31, and Lee, 40, walked out of Raiford. The state gave them $100 each. Pitts said he harbored "bitterness" but not "hatred." Said Lee just...
...Just Before Nightfall, an intelligent and wholly unsparing dark comedy, concerns an advertising executive named Charles (Michel Bouquet) who murders his mistress. Charles discovers-as did Hickey, under rather more intense circumstances in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh-that what is insupportable is the weight of pardon...
Marion returned and the conversation drifted to other subjects. Cleaver talked only briefly about his efforts to return to the United States. He said he has a request for a full pardon, exonerating him from skipping bail and leaving the country, before California's Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. Asked why he wants to return to America, he answered, "Well, don't you want to go back?" Someone asked where he would settle, and Cleaver answered that he hadn't even given it thought, that he just wants the freedom to return but doubts he'd settle here...
...never turned against his former boss and remains on good terms with Nixon and Nixon's wealthy friends; 2) he is confident that the Supreme Court will not rule on his appeal of his conviction until early 1977 and that by then a re-elected President Ford will pardon him and other major Watergate figures. Like so many of his fallen colleagues, Mitchell is at work on a book, but its approach is being kept secret by his publisher (Simon & Schuster...
...like the clatter of dry brambles. The idea sounds like such a good one--and it charges certain moments (wistful memories, lost possibilities) with double poignancy. But the costs are too steep. Presenting four in carnations of the same Hemingway is an artificial device the audience is supposed to pardon. It can But the artificiality--the feeling of an academic exercise--rubs off onto the life and world the play is set in, and this is too much incredulity for anyone to suspend...