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Begin also remained angry about what he called "a blood libel" against him that appeared two weeks ago in the Washington Star. An article by David Halevy, an occasional contributor to the Star on leave of absence from TIME, charged that the Prime Minister's office had figured in the obstruction of the security service's investigation of the attempted assassinations of three West Bank mayors last June. As a result, the Star claimed that the head of the General Security Service (known as Shin Bet), Avraham Achituv, had resigned. Israeli newspaper reports about the Star story inspired...
...more than a decade outraged environmentalists have marched countless companies into court on charges that they are polluting nature. But a corporation has turned the tables and sued the environmentalists for libel. One year ago, Rick Webb, 31, coordinator of West Virginia Mountain Stream Monitors Project, an environmental group, charged in his sporadically produced newsletter that the strip-mine operation of the D.L.M. Coal Corp. of Buckhannon, W. Va., had "destroyed" seven miles of trout streams on the Buckhannon River as a result of sulfuric acid and iron poisoning. Webb's complaint helped result in a federal inspection...
Though firms normally are reluctant to challenge such allegations in court because the cases can result in bad publicity, D.L.M. decided to fight. Last month it filed a $200,000 libel suit charging that Webb's account was "totally false and untrue, defamatory and libelous, intentionally and maliciously published...
Then Newsweek, Inc.'s fledgling monthly Inside Sports came out with a profile suggesting that the stresses of the couple's separate careers have produced an uneasy, sexually troubled marriage, confusing to Garvey and frustrating to his wife. The Garveys responded with an $11.2 million suit charging libel and invasion of privacy. By last week, as they took further steps to try to prevent the Los Angeles Herald Examiner from reprinting the article, the former golden couple found themselves embroiled in a raucous legal wrangle that touched on some fundamental constitutional issues...
...seventh time, and who directs the L.A. Rams like a feature film instead of a football team. Nor can Cyndey Garvey, who recently opened up to a writer for Inside Sports, and didn't stop talking--and then, together with first baseman and husband Steve, filed a libel suit of $11.2 million against the magazine, perhaps the brightest new typeface on the sports scene this summer...