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...profile lately at his 25-acre estate overlooking the Hudson River north of New York City. But even in seclusion he is one of the most publicized and pilloried religious figures in the U.S. His church was slapped with a $1.6 million judgment last March after losing a libel case filed against the Daily Mail in Britain. New York's highest court just upheld a decision to deny academic accreditation to the Unification Church's theological seminary in Barrytown, N.Y. There are also assorted tax disputes. Last week ABC News reported that Moon may be facing another formidable...
...Israeli planes flew over the reactor site, gathering valuable data. It was during this period that two Iranian warplanes made a bumbling attack on the reactor, causing little damage. Iraq charged that Israel was involved. Israel's acting Defense Minister, Mordechai Zipori, labeled the accusation an "anti-Semitic blood libel...
...Louis Harris poll shows that those who express "a great deal of confidence" in the press have decreased over the past 15 years from 29% to 19%. Another hint of popular displeasure may be the outsize $1.6 million libel award a jury gave the entertainer Carol Burnett when she won her suit against the National Enquirer. Nobody rushes to defend the shoddy gossiping of the Enquirer-beyond its First Amendment "right" to print it. Even though gossip and personality stories have become a major journalistic trend, the Enquirer does it to excess. The press has other, permanently hostile critics always...
Agnew not only faces a possible $350,000 judgment but also must contend with a multimillion-dollar libel suit filed by a former campaign manager and personal attorney who was named in his 1980 book Go Quietly . . .or Else. However, owing mainly to the international investment deals he packages, Agnew is believed to have a hefty in come. He owns a condominium in a waterfront high-rise in Ocean City, Md., and a lavish home in Palm Springs, Calif., where he surfaces sporadically to trim his golf handicap...
Maybe so, but some libel experts are uneasy. Taken together with the $14 million award (reduced from $26 million last week) against Penthouse magazine for libeling Kimerli Pring, a former Miss Wyoming, the Enquirer verdict might signal a trend in multimillion-dollar verdicts that could put publications out of business, a prospect that would unquestionably inhibit journalists. Says First Amendment Lawyer Floyd Abrams: "The fact that such a large judgment has been returned in such a highly publicized case may well be an inducement to more plaintiffs to bring more lawsuits seeking more money." As for the Enquirer, it vows...