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...prevailed--but barely. Needing every vote, Republican leaders summoned California Senator Pete Wilson from Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he was recuperating from surgery to remove a ruptured appendix. Wilson arrived in an ambulance as the roll call was in progress at 1:30 a.m. Friday; hospital aides trundled him onto the Senate floor in a wheelchair, a needle and intravenous tube still inserted in his arm. Senators gave Wilson a standing ovation, which he turned to laughter by asking deadpan, "What is the question?" He voted yes on the budget resolution, but Hawaii Democrat Spark Matsunaga rushed in from...
Sharon's lawsuit was aimed at the 22nd paragraph in TIME's eight-page story. The passage described a sympathy call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after Bashir's death and said that details about the visit were contained in a classified Appendix B to the report. The paragraph went on to say: "Sharon reportedly told the Gemayels that the Israeli army would be moving ; into West Beirut and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps. Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge...
...until four weeks ago that Sofaer was able to work out an arrangement with the Israeli government whereby representatives of TIME and Sharon examined Appendix B and related documents. After TIME's Israeli lawyer was permitted to view some, but not all, of the relevant documents, the magazine printed a retraction (Jan. 21) stating that Appendix B did not contain details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayels and expressing its regret. During the trial, Halevy explained that he had inferred that these details were in Appendix B from talks with Israeli officials and from the Kahan report. While admitting...
...reaching their verdict, the jurors said that TIME's mistaken report that the information was actually part of Appendix B "aggravated" the defamatory interpretation they read into the disputed paragraph. But the judge had agreed with TIME on this point and had told the jury that the alleged libel did not center on the content of the appendix but rather on the substance of what TIME's paragraph said--namely, that Sharon discussed revenge with the Phalangists before they were sent into the camps...
...Loatch also said that she and one other juror initially felt that TIME should be found to have acted with malice, but Foreman Zug argued that Halevy must have believed the appendix contained the disputed information. "We did not think he would have said it if he were not 100% certain," said Burdick. "He knew it could be checked the next morning by everyone in Israel who had access to that report." Ultimately, according to De Loatch, the jury believed that Halevy "wasn't actually out to get Sharon. He didn't make up the story, and he actually believed...