Nation IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : Robertson, Wiesel Join Rally for Spy

Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel joined a New York rally demanding that President Bush commute the life sentence of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard. Robertson asked the crowd whether it was “poetic justice” that Caspar W. Weinberger was indicted last week on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Iran-Contra affair. Weinberger, as U.S. defense secretary, urged a judge to give Pollard, a former Navy intelligence analyst, a harsh sentence as a traitor. Pollard pleaded guilty in 1986 to supplying Israel with U.S. information on Iraqi and Syrian efforts to develop nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. His lawyers said the government reneged on promises to recommend a lighter sentence.