Washington - President Clinton has pardoned a black American who refused military service and spent four decades in exile after his local draft board, in a racial snub, refused to call him "mister".
Dr Preston King, a professor of political philosophy at the University of Lancaster in Britain and father of a British MP, Ms Oona King, was granted a "full and unconditional pardon" on his 1961 draft evasion conviction. The pardon allows Dr King to return to the US for the funeral of his brother, civil rights activist Clennon W. King jnr.