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...take on major proportions again until World War II. Sixteen months after V-J day, President Truman responded to public pressure and established a three-man Amnesty Board to determine whether those who had been convicted of refusing to fight should be further punished. The board was less than lenient, partially because World War II had wide popular support. Of the more than 15,000 cases considered, only about 1,500 men were pardoned, most of them on religious grounds. "Intellectual, political or sociological convictions" against the war were not accepted as excuses, and clemency was not granted to those...
...actions with the oft-heard clichés that, after all, they were 1) innocent "victims of our harsh society," 2) in prison "only because they were black," or 3) "political prisoners." Governor Rockefeller did exactly the right thing. And now let's not have the courts get lenient with these murderous convicts...
...Challenge. Ruckelshaus also issued final regulations on exhaust-testing procedures, making them a bit more lenient than before. The old tests simulated a 71-mile urban auto trip, starting with a cold engine (which throws off more pollutants than a warm one). To approximate more closely the way a typical car is used during a day (the engine is often already warm from a previous trip), the new rules call for tests from warm and cold starts; this procedure should reduce the average emissions during tests, helping Detroit to meet the standards...
...committee wishes to make clear the gravity with which it views in stances of personal harassment of this sort," yesterday's CRR statement said. "[We] felt that we should be lenient on this first occasion .... In future, there can be no doubt that such actions are prohibited and will be dealt with severely...
...painfully, noses and eyes to itch and asthmatics to gasp for breath. The khamsin can also madden men. Automobile accidents are far more frequent when it is blowing, crime rates increase by as much as 20% and tempers rise with the mercury. Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin...