Convicted spy Jonathan Pollard called on Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon to press President Bush to grant him a pardon. “You have it in your power to rectify a great injustice in which Israel has been complicit for 16 years,” Pollard said in a letter to Sharon.
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