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...front-page editorial titled "Obituary U.S. Army"?and sold out the issue. "The death was announced by a general court-martial of six men," the editorial said. "Pallbearers will include Senators Fulbright, Kennedy and McGovern. Honorary pallbearers will include Moratorium marchers." The Texas senate called for a presidential pardon. Atlanta Printer Sam Yalanzon had takers for FREE CALLEY bumper stickers as fast as he could turn them out. Two radio stations in North Carolina and one in Roswell, N. Mex., announced that they would suspend broadcasts of Army public-service messages...
Instead, Ashman got a job teaching political science at California's University of the Pacific in 1968. He left five months later, apparently when the university discovered that he was a Florida parole violator. Undaunted, Ashman won a pardon and in 1969 began soliciting donations from San Francisco businessmen to launch what he called the American Public Affairs Foundation. It soon collapsed: the Better Business Bureau issued a warning that he was misrepresenting himself. Riverside University hired Ashman 16 months later...
Sajer can write flowery asides to the non-German civilian: "Shall I ever deserve pardon? . . . Can I ever forget?" But his real peer group then-and now -is that absolutely disciplined iron man, the German soldier. As an Alsatian (he even wrote his memoir in French), he admires with the special fervor of the semi-outsider...
...danger of being executed, Governors have felt less pressure to use their privilege. At the same time, the commuting of prison terms has remained a little-publicized but common practice, used almost as routinely as paroles to reduce sentences. Commutation is, of course, not the equivalent of a pardon; the 15 Arkansas convicts are still under life sentences, unless the Governor makes a further move...
Then why not abandon hope, surrender to the city, and trust in Christ's promised pardon? With stern Calvinistic orthodoxy, Ellul replies that those who do so immediately mark themselves among the unpardoned. For the Christian he suggests a subtler course: work with and in the city, but stay apart from it spiritually, disarming its lures to power and pride with the humor of an "active pessimism." But there may come a time, Ellul cautions, when life in the city "is no longer possible for the Christian." What then? Flee...