Word: rith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leonard Zakim, regional director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith said he thought the timing was no accident. "It can't be coincidental," Zakim said...
...local grand jury have been joined by the FBI and the U.S. Attorney's office in a search for the killers. The militant Jewish Defense Organization in New York City has offered a $10,000 reward for information. According to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, there are about 2,000 members of racist skinhead gangs active in 21 states. Lately they have become more visible on the West Coast, possibly because of recruiting efforts by the Aryan Youth Movement, a neo-Nazi group whose leader, John Metzger, was among those involved in the brawl...
Even so, in the Chicago area skinheads have been linked to the defacing of a new Holocaust memorial and drawing swastikas in public places. Law enforcement officials are "taking this threat very seriously," says Terry Levin of the Cook County state attorney's office. B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League sounded the same theme. In Shaved for Battle, a report on skinhead activities, the A.D.L. called for "careful monitoring" of the movement because of its "disturbing possibilities...
DIED. Nathan Perlmutter, 64, national director of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith since 1979; of lung cancer; in New York City. Born of Polish immigrant parents, Perlmutter originally joined the A.D.L. in 1949 to handle civil rights operations in Denver. Last month he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by Ronald Reagan, who cited "his life work to champion human dignity...
...your story on the deportation of Karl Linnas ((ETHICS, April 20)), you ask, "Should the U.S. use Soviet evidence against accused war criminals?" The answer is contained in a B'nai B'rith report that says, "Just as the leading lawyers at the Nuremberg trials ((discovered)) . . . no American court found that the Soviet Union provided false evidence. Neither was it found that any Soviet witness lied in his or her testimony...