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...cover story dealt with the published findings of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court president, Yitzhak Kahan. The killings, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The Kahan commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened. "It is impossible to justify the Minister of Defense's disregard of the danger of a massacre," said the commission report. Sharon resigned his post two days after the findings were released...
...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 correction...
...Arabs, mainly Palestinians, in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut. The murders, which began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel, were carried out by Christian Phalangist militiamen. The report of a commission headed by Israel's Supreme Court President, Yitzhak Kahan, found that Sharon had "disregarded the danger of acts of vengeance." The commission concluded that Sharon had ordered the militiamen into the camps and bore "indirect responsibility" for what had happened; Sharon resigned his defense post after the findings were released...
Throughout the trial, Sharon's lawyers have focused on David Halevy, a TIME correspondent in Jerusalem. Halevy has testified that he inferred what was in Appendix B from talks with Israeli officials, from Sharon's public testimony before the Kahan commission and from the report itself. As to the substance of what was said at Sharon's meeting with the Gemayels, Halevy testified that he relied on four sources, including an Israeli intelligence officer who had access to notes taken at one of the meetings. This source, according to Halevy, said that Bashir's father...
TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave firmly expressed his confidence in both Halevy and the disputed paragraph about Sharon. "I believe [the story] then and now," said Cave. 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...