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Singh's willingness to accept Gandhi's support opened him up to charges of opportunism. Singh was said to have accused her of being a congenital liar who had conspired to murder opposition leaders. One of those leaders was Singh himself, who had been jailed by Indira during her 19-month state of emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Lust for Office? | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...everything-JFK." "You mean you were involved in the Bay of Pigs?" Arkin asks, deadpan. "I was the one who came up with the idea," Falk proudly replies. This is a CIA agent who confirms the worst charges that Congress and the press have brought against the agency-a liar and bumbler, he seems to act without orders and puts civilians in danger...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: In-lawed Outlaws | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...Solters, a Sinatra spokesman in Los Angeles, explained that the crooner was angered by a recent column by William Safire in the New York Times that mentioned his alleged gangland ties. "You are a goddam liar," Sinatra telegraphed Safire, who printed the singer's denial in a subsequent column but stuck by his original story. In a letter accompanying Kampelman's article, Sinatra urges his readers to join with him in "reminding the press that there is more to the Constitution ... than the First Amendment it so frequently hides behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ol' Black Eyes | 5/21/1979 | See Source »

...opening day, Talmadge led off by delivering an angrily worded statement. With the air of a wounded lion determined to fight off encircling vultures, Talmadge denounced Minchew as "a proven liar, cheat and embezzler." Minchew has admitted receiving money from the bank account, but claimed he was simply being reimbursed for money he spent-for the Senator. Talmadge said that if he had committed the offenses he was accused of, he would be dimwitted, and the Senator added: "Even my enemies don't claim that I'm that stupid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trial of a Lion | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

...reporting U.S. atrocities in Viet Nam to his superiors. Herbert sued Producer Barry Lando, Correspondent Mike Wallace, CBS and the Atlantic Monthly (which published Lando's account of his investigation of Herbert) for a total of $44.7 million, claiming that he was made to look like a liar. During more than a year of exhaustive pretrial discovery, Lando sat through 26 sessions that produced 2,903 pages of transcript. He answered questions about what he knew or had seen, whom he interviewed and what he had learned. But he refused to tell Herbert's lawyers about his conversations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: The Mind of a Journalist | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

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