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DIED. Yitzhak Kahan, 72, former justice and president (1977-83) of Israel's Supreme Court, known for his broad legal knowledge, integrity and modesty, who headed the commission of inquiry into the Israeli role in the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees by Christian militiamen in Beirut; of a heart attack; in Haifa. The Kahan commission's exhaustive, carefully worded report assigned "personal responsibility" to Defense Minister Ariel Sharon for not anticipating and ordering measures to prevent the bloodshed and apportioned a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin...
TIME's cover story dealt with the report of a commission headed by Israel's former Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan. The massacre of the Palestinians, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, was carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. In finding that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance" when he ordered the militiamen into the camps, the Kahan commission concluded that he bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened. "It is impossible to justify the Minister of Defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre," the commission stated...
...still forbade the magazine's lawyers to talk with the most important witnesses. TIME's attorneys especially wanted to interview Major General Yehoshua Saguy, the former director of military intelligence who attended meetings with the Phalangists, and General Rafael Eitan, Sharon's chief of staff. According to the Kahan commission, Eitan had warned Sharon of the possibility of revenge at three meetings the day the massacre began. On one occasion Eitan said, "They're seething with a feeling of revenge," and he spoke of "rivers of blood." TIME's lawyers argued that it was inconsistent for Israel to forbid these...
...magazine printed a retraction (Jan. 21) stating that Appendix B did not contain details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayels and expressing its regret. During the trial, Halevy explained that he had inferred that these details were in Appendix B from talks with Israeli officials and from the Kahan report. While admitting that saying this information was in Appendix B was a mistake, TIME continues to believe that further details of Sharon's meeting with the Gemayels are contained elsewhere in the secret evidence gathered by the Kahan commission's investigators...
...jurors, Sofaer told them he had been "impressed, indeed awed" by their diligence. In interviews with newspapers and TV stations later, several of the jurors explained how the deliberations had gone. Lydia Burdick, 35, said they decided the passage had a defamatory meaning because it "went far beyond" the Kahan report. Patricia De Loatch, 27, a marketing specialist for AT&T, said she concluded that the TIME paragraph was false because the magazine had not offered evidence to back up its claim. "I felt he (Sharon) knew there would be a massacre," she told the Wall Street Journal. "I wanted...