Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Well, in the world of espionage it is never that simple. For as long as there have been secret agents, officials have had to weigh two conflicting considerations: the importance of trying accused spies and the risk such trials pose to national security. In the view of intelligence agencies, courtroom disclosures can sometimes be as damaging as the original espionage. Says Joel Levine, a former federal prosecutor with spy-trial experience: "There's always a push-pull relationship between Government agencies, one desirous of prosecuting, one desirous of preserving intelligence...
According to David Nies, a lawyer who was in the courtroom when Stewart pleaded and who argued her case for her, gratis, Stewart risked as much as $1500 by pleading not guilty to the charges...
...meeting that took place in April 1967. General William Westmoreland, then commander of U.S. armed forces in Viet Nam, had asked for 200,000 more troops. President Lyndon Johnson and top aides pressed for a date by which the American forces would win. As jurors in a Manhattan federal courtroom listened intently, the former National Security Adviser said he had no recollection of Westmoreland's having offered misleadingly hopeful "good news." The exchange was subdued but freighted with drama. This was no memoir, no scholarly retrospective. It was the first testimony, by one of the architects of America...