Word: libeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tuesday, Lawrence W. Frisoli, a candidate in that council election, and Lawrence DeGugliolmo filed suit in Middlesex County Court against Sondra Scheir, an election commissioner, and several other convention members on behalf of Stewart. The suit charges libel, alleging that the convention members did "intentionally, maliciously, negligently and recklessly challenge the legality of all absentee ballots" in Ward...
...city council election fraud charge and libel countercharge, however, are not yet settled...
Switzerland's passion-charged baby-food libel trial (TIME, Feb. 16) has ended in something of a draw. The plaintiff: the multinational Nestle Alimentana, among whose myriad food products are powdered infant formulas marketed in less developed countries. The defendants: members of the Bern-based Third World Working Group. The group had distributed a German-language version of a British pamphlet that charged baby-food makers with causing the deaths of Third World babies by hard-selling their formulas to illiterate mothers incapable of preparing them properly. The Swiss pamphlet was entitled Nestlé Kills Babies. Two years...
...Losing libel cases is getting to be routine news for the British press, but last week Princess Elizabeth of Toro, a former model and the Foreign Minister of Uganda until her 1974 dismissal by President Idi Amin, pulled a hat trick -she scored three times. Defeated were: the Daily Express, which had printed Amin's false accusation that the princess had indulged in a sexual encounter in a public lavatory at Paris' Orly Airport, the Sunday Telegraph, which wrongly claimed she was pregnant with Amin's baby, and the Sun, which mistakenly put her name...
Thorpe's parliamentary colleagues were aghast. When one Liberal M.P. publicly asked why Thorpe did not sue for libel if the charges were groundless, the party chief's puzzling explanation was that since Scott had no money he had no hope of collecting damages. In a last attempt to prove the innocence of his relationship with Scott, Thorpe released letters he had written to him in 1961 and 1962. They failed to allay all doubts. One letter, for instance, was signed tenderly: "Yours affectionately, Jeremy. I miss you." The following day, Thorpe wrote another letter, resigning his post...