Pollard Affair

Pollard Affair
case which developed around the jailing of Jonathan Pollard in the USA in 1985 (Pollard was arrested in 1985 and convicted of spying for Israel and sentenced to life in prison in 1987)

English contemporary dictionary. 2014.

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