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Sharon sued after the magazine published a February 1983 cover story about the findings of an official Israeli commission, headed by Supreme Court President Yitzhak Kahan, which concluded that Sharon as well as other Israeli officials bore "indirect" responsibility for the massacre. Sharon subsequently stepped down as Defense Minister, though he remained in the Cabinet and is now Israel's Minister of Industry and Trade. Sharon's suit is aimed at a paragraph in the story describing a condolence call Sharon paid to the Gemayel family the day after the assassination of the Lebanese President-elect. The passage...
While Bok's view did come under indirect attack, he also won praise from Tutu for his efforts to bring Black South African students to study at Harvard. In addition, the bishop praised Harvard for awarding degree in 1979, a move which he said had enormous symbolic importance in his native country...
...some 700 Arabs in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut. The killings, which followed the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were done by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The article extensively quoted the published report, which, among other things, found that then Defense Minister Sharon bore "indirect" responsibility for what had happened in the camps...
...junta and purged it of non-Marxist elements, they perceived the need to maintain a powerful standing army for three reasons: first, to provide an internally repressive force to control the populace; second, to serve as a vehicle for indoctrination of most young Nicaraguan men and women, and for indirect indoctrination of older Nicaraguans through frequent drills, rallies, and "defense alerts" against potential U.S. invasion and finally, to be used as a tool of aggression against Nicaraguan's non-Marklet neighbors...
...document clearly violates the spirit of an Executive Order signed by Reagan in 1981 that prohibits even indirect participation in assassination. At the very least, the document undercuts Reagan's moral pronouncements condemning state-sponsored terrorism by such nations as Libya, Syria and Iran. Last June, for example, Secretary of State George Shultz declared, "It is not hard to tell, as we look around the world, who are the terrorists and who are the freedom fighters . . . The contras in Nicaragua do not blow up school buses or hold mass executions of civilians." (Asked how to reconcile Shultz...