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...Paul McCloskey Jr. and Democratic Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana. "I may become a candidate for President of the United States," said Robertson, who last month announced a campaign to obtain 3 million signatures and financial support for a possible race. "It is important that I demonstrate the falsehood of these stories...
...whole concept of the organization. "What is the validity of a movement that cannot defend a member country if it is attacked?" asked Gaddafi, referring to the April 15 bombing of Tripoli by American jets. "I want to say goodbye, farewell to this funny movement, farewell to this utter falsehood. I am totally aligned against America, totally aligned against Israel, totally aligned against NATO. The dream of neutrality is over. There is no place for nonalignment anymore." But later, when reporters pressed him to know if Libya would withdraw from the nonaligned movement, Gaddafi smiled and said...
Kurzman's editorial purports to deal with the nature of the student-athlete (a term he puts within quotation marks, as if it is either a falsehood or an oxymoron). On what does he base his unfavorable estimation of Harvard athletics? He admits that he "[has] yet to read about Harvard's recruiting and admissions practices for potential big-sport athletes." The story he relates regarding the "anti-intellectual" attitude of Harvard athletes is "undocumented." In the face of the writer's admitted ignorance on the subject, how does he reach his conclusions? Obviously, the source of Kurzman's information...
...forced evacuation as fabrications. Eventually the Foreign Ministry issued a splenetic communique calling the stories "a shockingly big lie" that betrayed the tendency of "high-ranking officials of the Reagen (sic) Administration to go berserk once again on their usually familiar anti-Ethiopian campaign of denigration, disinformation and falsehood." Finally, last week, Ethiopia's Soviet-backed leader, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, conceded that the mass exodus had indeed taken place--at the command of a misguided local official. The offender would be punished, he said, and the refugees welcomed back to Ibnet...
...court conceded in throwing out the award, but "this does not support an inference of actual malice." Bose went to the Supreme Court, where its attorneys argued that the appeals court had exceeded its authority by weighing the basic facts of the case-whether or not there was falsehood and malice-which is the responsibility of the trial court. Not so, concluded Stevens for the majority, ruling in effect that First Amendment guarantees of free speech are so important that appellate courts' right of review in such cases should not be limited to just legal issues. Judges, wrote Stevens...