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...broad legal knowledge, integrity and modesty, who headed the commission of inquiry into the Israeli role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
Opinion was divided on whether the outcome in Westmoreland's case, and in the libel case that former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon lost against TIME, would encourage or discourage libel suits. Said Executive Editor Heath Meriwether of the Miami Herald: "The ability of CBS to put on a rousing defense was well noted, and I would hope that this has raised red flags among potential plaintiffs. Libel litigation has not proved to be either effective or efficient as the forum in which to seek redress for alleged wrongs." First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams, whose clients have included...
...that legalese, the jury rendered its decision that TIME had not libeled General Ariel Sharon in a paragraph in its Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 slaughter of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. After giving that verdict, however, Zug read a statement on behalf of the jury. It said that "certain TIME employees, particularly Correspondent David Halevy, acted negligently and carelessly in reporting and verifying the information which ultimately found its way into the published paragraph of interest in this case...
...Ariel Sharon vs. Time Inc. was an unprecedented case of a major foreign official suing for libel in a U.S. court over a story about his official actions. Moreover, it was a trial in which that official's government, citing security reasons, controlled information considered critical to the outcome. Throughout the trial, TIME's lawyers stressed that the Israeli government had denied the magazine access to key witnesses, documents and testimony that were ; deemed central to its defense. "It would have taken the jury only ten minutes if I could have presented all the relevant information," said Thomas Barr, chief...
...page charge that took two hours to read, Federal Judge Abraham Sofaer outlined the complex issues that the four women and two men on the jury had to evaluate. In reaching a verdict on former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million libel suit against Time Inc., he explained, they faced three sets of questions about a single paragraph in TIME's Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. First, could the disputed passage, which reported on discussions...