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After six weeks and 13 witnesses, lawyers for Israel's former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon last week rested their $50 million libel case against Time Inc. in a Manhattan federal courtroom. Paul Saunders, a lawyer for the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which is defending Time Inc., then stepped to the podium. Calling no defense witnesses, he announced, "Your Honor, we rest." Both sides will offer closing arguments when court reconvenes...
...litigation, you take it," explained Saunders. Milton Gould, Sharon's chief attorney, said he was "astonished," and retorted: "You quit when you don't know what to do." But in presenting their case, Sharon's lawyers, from the firm of Shea & Gould, had called eight Time Inc. employees as "hostile witnesses," a tactic that allowed them the first opportunity to examine the journalists. Time Inc.'s attorneys questioned those witnesses fully during the plaintiffs presentation. Thus, the Cravath lawyers believed that the best witnesses TIME could have presented had already been heard and that the jury...
...Defense Minister "reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge." Sharon acknowledges that he met with the Gemayels but denies that the subject of revenge came up. He contends, moreover, that TIME'S account implies that he encouraged or instigated the massacre. Time Inc. maintains that the contested paragraph in no way accuses Sharon of fomenting the tragedy...
...Asked by Gould if he thought the Kahan commission had any reason to believe Sharon had anticipated the massacre, Cave said no. "I think if he had, it would have horrified him and he would have prevented it on the spot." Henry Anatole Grunwald, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., also stood firmly behind the article, stating that he saw "no particular contradiction between the paragraph and the Kahan commission report." As for Halevy, Grunwald said he considered him "one of the best reporters I have ever known...
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...