Word: libellant
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...Laborite M.P. Harold Lever sees it, British libel laws are a "playground for rogues." Even though the basic principles of libel in Britain are the same as in the U.S., Britain's ancient laws have so many loopholes that court verdicts are often weighted heavily against newspapers. Seven months ago Lawyer Lever set out to change the laws, got the full backing of the British press, which has been clamoring for a liberalization of the statutes for years. Last week, thanks largely to Lever's efforts, Britain's libel laws were getting their first real overhauling...
Reporter Stern slapped a libel suit on L'Unità, and last week he won it. Two L'Unità writers and the paper's assistant director sheepishly told a Rome tribunal that they meant "no reflection on Mr. Stern's professional honor." The court ordered the paper to pay 500,000 lire ($800) in damages, plus 350,000 lire ($560) in costs and fines...
...Said a Post-Standard editorial: "McCarthy through his cheating and lying is his own worst enemy and actually does not help the cause of anti-Communism in the least. McCarthy is a disgrace to the U.S. Senate...and [should be] removed once and for all." McCarthy filed a libel suit...
...historical mysteries. For one thing, she unearthed copies of the much-debated Columbus "Entail of Property," in which Ferdinand and Isabella gave their Admiral the right to one tenth of all the spices and jewels he might discover. For another, she also did away with an age-old libel on Columbus' men, whom historians had long assumed to be no more than a gang of ex-convicts. Actually, only four were ever near a jail. "Aside from these four," says Alice Gould proudly, "none of my men was ever convicted...
...charged that the Agriculture Department juggled storage rules to please old friends of the Administration. Senator Kem, said Brannan, was against "nearly everything the farmers needed"; what was more, he was willing to document the charges. Cried Kem: "I'm putting you on notice right now that, libel laws being what they are, you'd better document them very thoroughly." After Kem refreshed Brannan on his voting record, Brannan backed down...