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Since Israel would have greeted any Syrian demand to eliminate the force as a casus belli, the Waldheim visit removed a lot of the tension that earlier caused Israel to mobilize troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Secure Until Next Spring? | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...Genesis was primarily notable for offering charter readers two centerfold nudes for the going price of one. Still another former Gallery hand, Photographer George Santo Pietro, 26, jumped ship to lay plans for Coq (pronounced, he insists, "coke"), which has yet another lawyer-on-a-lark (Melvin Belli) scheduled to hold the title of publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Adentures in the Skin Trade | 7/30/1973 | See Source »

...American Trial Lawyers Association. Not long ago, Steingold was grumbling to a friend that the lack of a rating had cost him a client, since people looking for out-of-town lawyers tend to check the entries in Martindale-Hubbell. Steingold was grumbling to the right man: Melvin Belli, free-swinging crusader against every variety of tort. Belli promptly filed a class-action suit against Martindale-Hubbell on behalf of Steingold and all other non-rated lawyers (a group that includes Belli himself). His demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Who Rates Whom? | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

...money just makes it interesting," said Belli, "but I've been sore at Martindale-Hubbell for years." At the heart of Belli's charge is the question of how Martindale-Hubbell compiles its ratings. According to his complaint, the firm sends out confidential questionnaires from its headquarters in Summit, N.J., to already-rated attorneys in an applicant's area. Belli argues that this system creates "a self-perpetuating trust" that favors "a small, silk-stocking, knickerbocker, split-fee club of inept commercial lawyers," and discriminates against "far more capable young lawyers who are not yet involved with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Who Rates Whom? | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

Haim Bar-Lev, the present Minister of Commerce and Industry but until recently chief of staff of the armed forces (and deputy chief during the war), has stated that "the entrance of the Egyptians into Sinai was not a casus belli." If Gamal Abdel Nasser had not insisted on barring the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, Bar-Lev insists, the war would not have occurred, at least not at that time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Was the War Necessary? | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

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