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...Ariel Sharon's attorney Milton Gould, the issue before the jury was the destruction of the reputation of a hero and patriot. "It falls to you, six Americans," he said, "to do your duty and eradicate this infamy." To Thomas Barr, chief counsel for Time Inc., what was at stake was the ability of the press to seek and print the truth. "This involves a news story of how a horrible, brutal, insensible massacre of women and children took place," he said. "That is what the press's job is: to dig at things like this, to pick at things...
After eight weeks and 14 witnesses, the case of Sharon vs. Time Inc. culminated last week with vigorous summations by each side. It was now up to the jury to decide if, as the former Israeli Defense Minister contends, TIME magazine libeled him in a paragraph in its Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut...
Originally from posh, suburban Brookline, Mass., Stone came to Harvard, Kirkland House and the Owl Club from Milton Academy. Since graduating with a degree in economics, Stone has hit it big in the shipping industry. He is currently head of New York-based West India Shipping Inc., and before that ran States Marine Lines, which owns and operates a fleet of cargo ships...
...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 examined the conflicting rights of a man to his reputation and the press's constitutional right to its opinions...
...Supreme Court said in Gertz vs. Robert Welch, Inc. that "there is no such thing as a false idea," meaning that opinion is not punishable; opinions should be countered not by judges and juries but by "the competition of other ideas." But facts can be false and actionable. Evans and Novak had quoted one unnamed political scientist as saying that "Ollman has no status within the profession, but is a pure and simple activist." Is that an opinion, or a fact subject to verification? To Judge Antonin Scalia, who is also a Reagan appointee on the court of appeals, this...