Word: libeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York Times Reporter Harrison Salisbury reported that the city of Birmingham was a smoldering volcano of racial tension, "a community of fear." These and other Salisbury conclusions, published in a two-part series, outraged six Birmingham and neighboring Bessemer city commissioners (plus one police detective), who separately brought libel suits against Salisbury and the Times and asked a total of $3,100,000 in damages. Last week in New Orleans, by holding that a newspaper published in New York City could not be sued for libel in Alabama, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in effect threw all seven...
TIME'S article, "Too Many Drugs" (May 26), is a libel of the prescription-drug industry that cannot pass unchallenged...
...This is not a book This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty...what you will...
...Neue Presse of Passau, added a few more accusations-that Brandt fought with the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War; that he served in the Norwegian army and even fired on German troops; and that after the war, Brandt referred to Germans as "criminals." Brandt sued for libel...
Just Begun. Though the verdict will be appealed, it was a considerable blow to the Times (which buried the story on page 67). Still pending are three more libel suits resulting from the same ad, including one by Alabama Governor John M. Patterson, asking $1,000,000. The Sullivan judgment strongly implied that the Times's trouble has only begun...