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...events of last week climaxed nine months of often frustrating negotiations between Sofaer and the Israeli government to gain access to classified materials. Under the revised terms proposed by Sofaer in early November, two Israeli lawyers, one representing Time Inc. and the other Sharon, would review the documents alone with Kahan. Kahan, in consultation with the two lawyers, would then answer whether the documents "contain any evidence or suggestion" that Sharon discussed revenge with the Phalangists or "knew in advance that the Phalangists would massacre civilians" in the camps. Time's attorneys said that the magazine would print an appropriate...
...meeting with Kahan took place in a conference room in the offices of Prime Minister Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Sunday, Jan. 6. Time Inc. was represented by Haim Zadok, a former Israeli Minister of Justice; Sharon was represented by Dov Weisglass, a Tel Aviv lawyer. At the outset of the examination, Zadok learned that he would not be permitted to see testimony gathered by the commission's investigators, who had the power to subpoena witnesses and require them to testify...
Zadok immediately protested and subsequently wrote a letter expressing his objections to that restriction. "This was no fishing expedition," explained Harry Johnston, general counsel for the Time Inc. Magazine Group. "At that late stage, Time was looking for specific testimony that it thought would help its case...
Meanwhile, Time Inc. General Counsel William Guttman, who had flown to Israel to await the outcome of the Kahan meeting, was informed that he too must sign a secrecy agreement. Only after Guttman did so was he told that the Israeli Attorney General had decided to make public Kahan's answers, which concluded that Appendix B and other documents examined did not contain "any evidence or suggestion" that Sharon had discussed revenge with the Phalangists. The government, however, refused to release Zadok's letter of reservations. As far as Time Inc. was concerned, this was a clear breach...
...March 1951, Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Luce directed that from then on at least one color page should appear in every issue of TIME. Four-color photographs had made their debut in the magazine years before Luce's decree (in a 1934 survey of U.S. Depression-era painting, including Grant Wood's classic, American Gothic). But color was expensive, not always accurate and + required such a long time from photo to printed page that it was used only to illustrate feature stories...