B’nai B’rith President Tommy Baer is scheduled to meet Thursday with Jonathan Pollard at his Butner, N.C., prison. A former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst, Pollard has been serving a life sentence since 1987 for spying for Israel. B’nai B’rith called on President Clinton to commute Pollard’s sentence on humanitarian grounds.
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