Word: ariels
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...covered the ravaged precincts of Beirut and the troubled ruling circles of Israel before and after the 1982 massacre. Halevy's highly personal account was required because his credibility and state of mind are principal issues in a $50 million libel suit brought by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME...
...potentially biggest news stories of the year are currently playing themselves out in the same Federal court house in New York. Two well-known generals, William Westmoreland and Ariel Sharon, are suing two of the United States' biggest news organizations for libel. Westmoreland, former commander of the American forces in Vietnam, is suing CBS for $120 million ever a documentary it broadcast in 1982 charging that Westmoreland had taken part in a "conspiracy" during the war "to suppress and alter critical intelligence on the enemy." Sharon, mastermind of Israel's invasion of Lebanon, is suing Time magazine for $50 million...
Lewis: Its not the law at the moment. But I have a view that at least as to high officials, policy-making officials like Ariel Sharon or William Westmoreland or Paul Laxalt or the judges of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court or any of these other people who are suing... that as to them there should be no libel actions whatever, that they are in the field of politics, and when they go into that field, they accept the risk, they undertake the risk, and answer back...
...second day of Federal Case 83 Civ. 4660, Ariel Sharon vs. Time Inc. The wood-paneled courtroom in lower Manhattan was crowded but hushed as the plaintiff took the stand. "My parents were people who fought for the truth that they believed," said Sharon, the former Defense Minister of Israel. "And defending the truth, defending your truth, your people's truth, that was also what brought me here, 6,000 miles away from home, to this American court." Earlier, Time Inc.'s lawyers had presented the case differently. Sharon's lawsuit, they argued, "is part...
...courtroom six floors below the one in which Ariel Sharon testified, another general last week took the stand in a $120 million libel suit against CBS. Dressed in a crisp, gray suit and sporting a small red-and-white striped Viet Nam service ribbon, the ramrod-straight William Westmoreland, 70, former commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, recounted his 36 years of military service. Then he launched into a rebuttal of The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, the 1982 CBS documentary that is at issue in the trial...