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...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...
...Ariel Sharon's attorney Milton Gould, the issue before the jury was the destruction of the reputation of a hero and patriot. "It falls to you, six Americans," he said, "to do your duty and eradicate this infamy." To Thomas Barr, chief counsel for Time Inc., what was at stake was the ability of the press to seek and print the truth. "This involves a news story of how a horrible, brutal, insensible massacre of women and children took place," he said. "That is what the press's job is: to dig at things like this, to pick at things...
...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...
...page concurring opinion Bork suggested that the courts ought to be stricter about the rash of libel suits. He did not mention General William Westmoreland's $120 million suit against CBS--in which the general's attorney vows to "dismantle" CBS News--or former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million suit against Time Inc. Bork examined the conflicting rights of a man to his reputation and the press's constitutional right to its opinions...
After six weeks and 13 witnesses, lawyers for Israel's former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last week rested their $50 million libel case against Time Inc. in a Manhattan federal courtroom. Paul Saunders, a lawyer for the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which is defending Time Inc., then stepped to the podium. Calling no defense witnesses, he announced, "Your Honor, we rest." Both sides will offer closing arguments when court reconvenes...