Word: libeler
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...Hampshire's Publisher William Loeb, May 20: I cannot but marvel at a country in which an editor can label (and yet not libel) the President as "a stinking hypocrite." May the day never come when it will be otherwise...
...happens to be a sadistic degenerate." After a few minutes, Wallace returned to the subject of the "apparently respectable" Chief William Parker in an attempt to lever Cohen into naming bribed politicians. That touched Cohen off again: "I'm going to give him much to bring a libel suit against me. He's nothing but a thief that has been-a reformed thief . . . This man here is as dishonest politically as the worst thief that accepts money for payoffs . . . He is a known alcoholic. He's been disgusting. He's an old degenerate. In other words...
...eleven of the 79 stations handling the show, gave Parker and Hamilton an offer-which they scorned-of equal time on Wallace's show. Parker and Hamilton, shrewd cops with good records (whose names are familiar to viewers of Jack Webb's Dragnet), filed complaints of criminal libel against Cohen and his TV hosts both in Los Angeles and Manhattan. Parker announced that he would sue all concerned, including sponsor Philip Morris. Also ready to sue: ex-Mayor Fletcher
...Britain, the courts still tend to view defamatory or contemptuous statements by newspapers more gravely than their American counterparts. British newspapers seldom win a libel suit; U.S. papers win at least as many as they lose. In the U.S., keyhole-peeping columnists are rarely sued for running exaggerated or even fabricated accounts of celebrities' loves and lapses. But privacy-proud Englishmen do not treat unfavorable stories as unworthy of notice-not to the extent of refraining from a promising libel suit...
...Angeles County grand jury last week landed the first solid blow on the peeping eye of Confidential's Publisher Robert Harrison. Harrison, already beset by $28.5 million in libel suits, and ten confederates were indicted on charges of conspiracy to publish criminal libel, to distribute lewd and obscene material and to disseminate illegal information about abortions and male rejuvenation. As California Assistant Attorney General Clarence Linn said, perhaps optimistically: "In my opinion, Confidential is finished...