1.   Bob Dole raised the pardon issue in the first debate and then backed away.

2.   Caplan said Symington raised the pardon issue sometime between Thanksgiving and mid-December last year, during a telephone conversation in which various personal topics were discussed.

3.   If Toledo feels it would be easier politically to have the interim president, Valentin Paniagua, issue the pardon, then he should do so.

4.   In the stack of e-mails messages, the lawyers also discussed the best way for Ms. Rich to prod Clinton on the pardon issue.

5.   Attention focused on the pardon issue this week after the surrender of radical leader Toni Negri.

6.   Bush commented somewhat gingerly on the pardon issue, telling reporters he had other matters to attend to.

7.   Netanyahu has said the man, Azam Azam, was innocent and demanded Mubarak issue a pardon.