Word: ariels
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...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...
...honor of yesterday's verdict in the Ariel Sharon case. The Crimson will not publish for the next four days. The Crimson will reappear Wednesday, under new, younger management...
...cover story, "The Verdict Is Guilty," TIME reported that Israel's official commission of inquiry found that Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, and several other military officials shared an "indirect" responsibility for the massacre by Lebanese Phalangist soldiers of hundreds of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila that began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel. In one paragraph of its article, TIME reported that a secret appendix to the commission's published report--known as Appendix B--contained "further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family...