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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...
According to the TIME story, a secret appendix to the Kahan report contains information about Sharon's visit with the Gemayel family. Under questioning by Judge Abraham Sofaer and Sharon's lawyer Milton Gould, Halevy conceded that he had not been told directly by a source what the appendix contained, but that he had inferred it from strong hints from Israeli officials and other circumstantial evidence...
...allow both parties in the suit to examine the appendix as well as notes taken by Israeli officials at the meetings between Sharon and the Gemayel family. The Israeli government has agreed to allow Sofaer to submit written questions about the contents of these documents, but only to Kahan. At week's end the matter remained unresolved...
...that Sharon got 42% of the delegates' votes to Shamir's 56%. Most political observers had expected Sharon to win a mere 10% to 15%. It was a remarkable comeback for a man who was forced to resign as Defense Minister last year after the government-appointed Kahan commission concluded that he had made "a grave mistake when he ignored the danger of acts of revenge and bloodshed" by Lebanese Phalangists against Arab civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps outside Beirut in September 1982. Might Sharon's strong showing last week...
...European Community's 1980 Venice Declaration, which recognized the Palestine Liberation Organization and called for a Palestinian state. He also struck up what one aide calls an "instant chemistry" with U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz. Shamir's only major blemish appeared last February when the Kahan commission of inquiry reprimanded him severely for having failed to verify early reports of the massacre of more than 700 Palestinians in two Beirut refugee camps. Despite that omission, his standing within Israel remains unshakable. Says a U.S. official who knows him well: "He's a tough...