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demonstrations.
ACLU National Execu-
tive Director Ira Glasser
says ACLU has defended
pro-life groups' right to
peacefully demonstrate.
ACLU contends the consti-
tutional right to privacy
protects a woman in mak-
ing reproductive choices.
"We are very conserva-
tive," says the ACLU's
Oakland County presi-
dent, Ms. Shartsis. "We
are not making anything
up. We are defending the
Bill of Rights, which has
been around for 200
years."
Howard Simon is accus-
tomed to the controversy
surrounding the organiza-
tion he wears on his shirt-
sleeve. Nasty letters are
routine, and cards with
Christian psalms come in
the mail regularly from
foes.
"For the last several
decades, most of the peo-
ple we have represented
are those who wanted to
fight for free speech —
civil rights workers,
Vietnam War protestors,
Nazis — they were
against the government,"
he says. "We became asso-
ciated with the people we
represented.
"Our legal system is
kind of crazy in a way,"
Mr. Simon says. "We may
not like the flag burner or
the Nazi. We could stand
by and say these are peo-
ple we would never invite
to our homes for dinner.
But the strange thing
about our legal system is
that what happens to
them affects all of us.
"Our mission is to limit
government power and
enhance government free-
dom," Mr. Simon says.
"What is so radical about
that?" ❑
Levy Pleads Guilty
To Embezzlement
Jerusalem (JTA) — A former
member of Israel's Knesset
has admitted in court to
embezzling money from a
fund affiliated with the Shas
party and is likely to go to
jail as a result.
Yair Levy pleaded guilty
to illegally taking money
from the El Hamayan
cultural association during
his service as director-
general of the association,
which is affiliated with his
fervently Orthodox party.
The prosecution thereupon
asked for a 40-month prison
term under a plea-bargain
arrangement worked out by
the Tel Aviv District At-
torney's Office and the
defense counsel.
Under the deal, Mr. Levy
admitted to stealing 310,000
shekels ($118,000), an
amount smaller than the
500,000 shekels cited in the
original charge sheet.
The agreement was struck
in the midst of lengthy hear-
ings on charges of theft,
fraud, forgery and breach of
trust against Levy and his
wife, Geula. Under the
terms of the plea bargain,
Geula Levy will get a
suspended sentence.
A former speaker of the
Knesset, Dov Shilansky, led
a procession of public figures
who took the stand as
character witnesses on Mr.
Levy's behalf.
The spiritual mentor of
Shas, Rabbi Ovadia Yosef,
sent a letter to Judge Micha
Lindenstaus, citing a rab-
binic rule to the effect that
"where one comes to
sentence a man, the man's
good deeds should be re-
counted."
A venerable leader of the
rigorously Orthodox
Ashkenazic community, 95-
year-old Rabbi Eliezer
Shach, offered to give
character testimony if the
court would come to his
home, but the judge declined
the offer.
Mr. Levy himself showed
emotion, for the first time
during the trial, when the
court was told of his adop-
tion and rearing of a young,
homeless boy.
Under Israeli law, a judge
is not required to hand down
his sentence in conformity
with the terms of a plea-
bargain. In practice, though,
the vast majority of such
bargains are indeed mir-
rored in the court's verdict.
Sixteen people called by
the prosecution during the
trial were declared hostile
witnesses when they
backtracked from
statements made earlier to
the police.