Word: libel
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Autocratic Middle-East leaders and their state-run newspapers, moreover, have been leveling ridiculous charges of Nazism against Israel for years. In 1983, Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass penned The Matzah of Zion, which propagated the repugnant libel that Jewish families murdered Gentiles and then used their blood to make traditional holiday pastries...
...called Golden Age of movies, American blacks looked up at the screen and asked, "Where am I?" Then they looked closer and saw that the portrayals of blacks amounted to a racial libel...
...Winners DAVID SOUL Hutch wins libel suit against journalist who called his play the worst ever without seeing it. Funny, we almost made that call AIR VICE-MARSHAL "JOHNNIE" JOHNSON British WWII ace's medals posthumously sell for $345,200. Sensing an opportunity, Werner Klemperer's family auctions his monocle TEOFILA MARTINEZ Mayoress of Cadiz is offered a role in the new 007 movie. Rudy Giuliani was passed over despite a fresh waxing and skimpy bikini Losers CARLY FIORINA HP CEO in trouble as Hewletts and Packards oppose Compaq merger. Undoubtedly both of them once owned Presarios MARTHA STEWART...
...perhaps his most creative piece of work. The shameless peer began a four-year prison sentence in July for forging a diary 14 years ago and concocting a story as unbelievable as one of his novels. To counter a prostitute's accusation of a sexual encounter and win a libel suit against a British tabloid, Archer had persuaded a friend to lie for him and had created a host of false journal entries to nullify the working girl's claims. More than a decade later, his friend, after a falling out with Archer, confessed his role...
CHEE SOON JUAN The Singapore Democratic Party chief was jailed twice in 1999 after refusing to pay $2,200 in fines for holding public rallies without a permit. In 1993, he paid $300,000 in libel damages and costs in relation to comments he made following his dismissal from a university teaching post...