Word: libeler
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...E.N.I, and Gulf Italia ended, and the two protagonists prepared to join in a $150 million oil deal. Nicky Pignatelli, 40, is no man to run from a fight; he had held off the left by forcefully debating Mattei face to face, once successfully sued a Communist newspaper for libel after it accused Gulf Italia of using improperly obtained government surveys to locate its oil. On the other hand, the prince is not inclined to fight needlessly when a deal can be made. E.N.I.'s pipelines and service stations stretch from England to Ethiopia, but the state monopoly...
...sound basis upon which to form an opinion. However, your article concerning the Goldmark case [Jan. 31] was just a little too liberal for even me to stand. You are in essence saying that to call a political candidate a Communist or a Communist sympathizer in print is libel. How ridiculous...
Miss King termed Weaver's arrest part of a "purge" of rights workers by the Canton authorities. She noted that every one of the 20-odd CORE and SNCC workers in Canton had been jailed since Jan. 22 on charges varying from publishing libel to burning trash without a permit. Ball in every case was very high, she said. For disturbing the peace...
...compensatory damages-direct payment for the anguish, the loss of salary and the loss of face in the football community that he may have suffered because of the Post's accusations. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service does not consider such payments taxable, although punitive damages in libel cases-damages assessed as fines against the libeler but paid to the libeled person-are taxed as regular income...
...such cases, critics customarily use the word "derivative," which is a libel proof way of saying that the author's best skill is burglary. But there is no intentional theft here. Baker's book is his own; its mistakes and its successes have edges too rough to have been cut by imitation. The author is in the ridiculous position of a man who, in all good faith, has written a good, sound, playable five act tragedy about a Scandinavian prince whose father has just been murdered by his uncle...