Word: aryeh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burger court held by a 5-to-3 vote that if a person has a "predisposition" to commit a crime, it will be almost impossible for him to claim entrapment successfully, no matter how much inducement to the crime the Government has provided. Under the ruling, says Aryeh Neier, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, "if anyone does anything, you can say there must have been predisposition...
More often than not, crusaders for causes try to rally support by glooming over the darkness of their situation. So why is this man smiling? Sitting in his pine-paneled office at the mid-Manhattan headquarters of the American Civil Liberties Union, Executive Director Aryeh Neier, 37, is saying happily these days, "This is the best single moment for civil liberties in the past dozen years." The statement may be impolitic, but Neier has a point...
...Lawyer. The shy overseer of all this success came to the A.C.L.U. from Hitler's Germany. Born in Berlin in 1937, Aryeh (Hebrew for lion and pronounced Ar-eeay) Neier (rhymes with higher) was taken to London at the age of two to escape the Nazis; after the war, he moved with his family to New York City. Young Aryeh went through the city's public school system and on to Cornell, where he organized a speakers' group that made a show of inviting a Daily Worker editor to lecture when the City College of New York...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Aryeh Tuvia, 58, scrappy international soldier of fortune who became a hero of the Israeli army; in a parachuting accident; in Zaire, Africa. Born in Austria and commissioned an officer in that country's army, Tuvia joined the French Foreign Legion before he was 21. He entered Palestine in 1938, joined the British army there and fought in North Africa during World War II. After returning to Palestine, Tuvia joined the Israelis during their war for independence and later, during the 1956 Sinai conflict, fought behind Egyptian lines. In 1963, he went to Nepal...
...police favor. But the result-the fact that only a minority of informers ever appear in court-helps to reduce the amount of control that judges have over their use. Many who worry about informers and police power would like to see more, not less, of such judicial control. Aryeh Neier, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, thinks that the use of police informants should be permitted only after a judge issues a warrant. Others, like Illinois Attorney Joseph R. Lundy writing in The Nation, focus their objection narrowly on political investigations. They would require a warrant authorizing...