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Article: U.S. WOMAN IN BANGLADESH PRISON PARDONED AFTER 3 YEARS.(News)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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- July 30, 1996
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Byline: Associated Press
Bangladesh's president has pardoned an American woman three years into her life prison sentence for smuggling 7 pounds of heroin, a prison official said Monday.
Eliadah McCord of Houston will be released from a Dhaka prison by Tuesday, said Aminur Rahman, deputy inspector general of prisons.
She is expected to be escorted back to the United States by Rep. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., who visited Bangladesh in February to intercede on her behalf.
McCord, 23, was arrested at the Dhaka airport in 1992 and was convicted a year later.
She has said she did not know that four packages ...