Word: gould
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...feeling of revenge," and he spoke of "rivers of blood." TIME's lawyers argued that it was inconsistent for Israel to forbid these military officers to testify about the very same events that Sharon was allowed to discuss in court. TIME's complaints, said Sharon's attorney Milton Gould, were "a lot of malarkey...
Outside the courtroom in lower Manhattan, a smiling Sharon told reporters, "I am pleased that we won on this point." His attorney, Milton Gould, added, "I'm glad we're not going to get beaten on etymology." Moments later TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave said he felt that the jurors had "misread" the disputed paragraph and insisted once again that the passage in no way accused Sharon of responsibility for the massacre. The passage simply echoed the findings of the Kahan report, Cave said. He defended the magazine's use of confidential sources in seeking information about the events leading...
...exist that TIME was not allowed to see. That material, said Barr, could include minutes of a meeting that Sharon held with Bashir two days before the assassination; the Defense Minister might have learned there of the Phalangists' intentions if they ever entered the Palestinian refugee camps. In response, Gould dismissed Zadok's reservations as a "red herring...
...Gould depicted Sharon as a "great and good man . . . an asset too precious to be defiled by lies and half-truths." He told the jury: "Your verdict will do much to determine whether he'll go down in history as a great man, a great soldier, a savior of his country or as a kind of monster, another Herod." Sharon's approval of the decision to send the Phalangists into the camps, he said, was made while "bullets were flying and guys were dying." Said Gould: "He's not making the kind of decisions you make as an editor...
...Though Gould acknowledged that this decision by Sharon was "a mistake," he added, "He is still paying the price for it. He knows it has left scars on the reputation of a great soldier." Sharon could not have been guilty of encouraging the massacre, Gould argued, because he knew records were being kept of the meetings. Said the plaintiff's attorney: "He may be fat, but he ain't crazy...