Word: libeling
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...sometimes months of interviewing and perusal of piles of documents, all too often with no results. Many false trails must be explored for every one that leads to a genuine story. Not many publishers feel that they can afford the investment, to say nothing of the risk of libel suits. Investigative reporters complain that the press on the whole prefers to report the activities of a Ralph Nader rather than dig up the facts itself...
...passionate nationalist is open to a charge of demagoguery. But when he had a chance to earn his martyr's credentials in 1958 by going to jail on a criminal libel charge, Nyerere chose to pay the fine instead, in order to avoid precipitating a crisis for the new colonial governor. Throughout the long transfer of power, he insisted: "We are fighting against colonialism, not against whites...
Hard Work. After 18 months in the enforcement division of the National Labor Relations Board, she went into private practice, began specializing in labor, equal employment, libel and immigration law, and eventually she joined the firm of Wilson, Woods & Villalon. She became a full partner in 1970, and now represents five international unions and more than a dozen corporations. Says a partner, Warren Woods: "Her success is due mainly to damned hard work...
...open court: "Your Honor, it is difficult at best to argue against a woman attorney. But to argue against a woman attorney who is going to have a baby in ten days is downright unfair." Mrs. Murphy was capable as well as pregnant, and Dodd subsequently lost his libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson...
MARCUS AURELIUS Arnheiter, a retired Lieut, Comdr. in the United States Navy, field a $5 million libel suite in San Francisco Federal District Court last Friday against Cornelius Mahoney Sheehan '58, by-line Neil Sheehan, novice author and a reporter for The New York Times. The suit taps all the usuals--"breach of contract, fraud and deceit, conspiracy, breach of confidence, libel and slander"--in connection with Sheehan's first book. The Arnheiter Affair, published last month. Yet the foundation of Arnheiter's suit is shallow, for Sheehan has--through two years of pain-staking interviews and research--come...