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Last week Verola sued the Dean Witter firm for, among other things, libel, slander and interference with business relations. She is seeking a public retraction of the slurs in addition to $100,000 for lost income and, she hopes, an extra $500,000 or more in punitive damages. Says she: "I went bare in a bull market...
...Christian militiamen into the camps. In Tel Aviv, a mass rally of 400,000 Israelis, an extraordinarily large crowd for so small a country, protested Begin's refusal to launch an official inquiry. In his defense, the Prime Minister accused his country's critics abroad of committing a "blood libel" against Israel, and added, "Goyim kill goyim, and they come to hang the Jews...
Earlier this year, TIME carried an article on Consumer Reports magazine [Feb. 1] that described a libel case brought by the Bose Corp. over an article criticizing the Bose 901 speaker. In reporting on the opinion in favor of the Bose Corp., TIME said, "The verdict... casts doubt on the magazine's credibility." A U.S. court of appeals has now overturned that decision in a unanimous opinion. We have always been proud of Consumer Reports' reputation for objectivity. More important, the ruling is a reaffirmation of the public's right to know and the media...
Indeed, during his tenure, MacNeil has noticed politics bending more and more under the weight of television and its big brother, money. Advertising that verges on libel has become the norm, he points out, adding, "The spending of such huge sums on congressional campaigns gives a grimmer and darker meaning to the old joke: 'We have the best Congress-that money can buy.' " Despite these ominous trends, MacNeil still reacts with undiminished excitement to an election. This year, after a voting night watch until 2 a.m. and facing a breakfast appointment followed by a day of press conferences...
...primary election night in 1978, when Edward J. King came from however to vanquish then-Gov. Dukakis, supporters chants of "We beat the Duke!" soon blurred into "We beat the Globe!" In this year's long gubernatorial campaign, the paper has the dubious and perhaps unprecedented distinction of drawing libel suits from contenders in each party...