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Furious, Khrushchev decided to expel Malik from the party and dismiss him from his post. During an audience with the Premier, Malik apparently fell to his knees and wept as he begged forgiveness. By this time Khrushchev's U-2 scheme had come to fruition, and he contented himself with a humiliating punishment for Malik: ordering him to make a public confession at a party meeting of the entire Foreign Ministry...
Bork was one of a 6-to-5 majority on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that voted last month to dismiss a libel suit against Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, whose Washington column appears in about 180 newspapers. In his 37-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...
Rome clearly did not agree. Last month the Vatican's Sacred Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes commanded the heads of the religious orders whose members had signed the ad to get public retractions from the offenders. The superiors were told to dismiss those who refused to recant...
Shortly before the holiday recess, Sofaer denied a series of motions by the Time Inc. attorneys to dismiss the case outright. But he reserved judgment on whether the magazine had been denied due process by the Israeli government's refusal to allow Time Inc.'s lawyers to see key documents, including the secret appendix, and question several Israeli officials. Sofaer has informed the Israeli government that the secret papers can be accepted as evidence only if attorneys from both sides are allowed direct access to them. In a statement attached to Sofaer's letter, Time Inc. attorneys...
While stunned by the Indian disaster, American chemical engineers are eager to learn its causes so that it will not be repeated. Says Du Font's Karrh: "We cannot dismiss a catastrophe like Union Carbide's. We are awaiting the results of the investigation, and you can be sure that we will learn from it all we can." -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington and Raji Samghabadi/ New York