Word: libellant
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...been steadily tightening the screw on such opposition as still exists in Argentina. Oppressive new laws have been ground out by a congress systematically weakened by the liquidation of opposition deputies. Over 20 anti-Perón periodicals have been closed up in the past five weeks; charges of libel and account-juggling have been brought against the leading independent dailies La Nación and La Prensa (TIME...
...this, cried Pearson in aggrieved tones, was due to a fact that Pearson unblushingly made public: Pegler had violated a gentlemen's agreement with Pearson not to call each other names any more. The agreement had been made in 1946, said Pearson, when he withdrew a $25,000 libel suit against Pegler who had called him a "miscalled newscaster specializing in falsehoods...
...weeks ago Pearson filed a second libel suit after Pegler had called him a "lying blackguard." Last week as part proof of the let's-be-nice agreement, Pearson produced a lamblike 1946 note to him from Roaring Lion Pegler: "Let bygones be bygones . . . That is my sincere desire ... I do not believe our present course, if pursued, would benefit anyone and I do think we might bring unpleasant attention to the newspaper business, which has been very good to both of us. In fact, I think it is wasteful to devote valuable space to personal controversies between columnists...
...when all the countries of the Communist empire treat British and U.S. representatives "like stink." Answering Vansittart for the government, Viscount Jowitt, Britain's Lord Chancellor, brought cheers when he announced that the government was setting up a committee to consider changes in the law which made Tass libel-proof. To illustrate Tass's mendacity, Viscount Jowitt read a Tass report in Moscow's Literary Gazette of how Londoners "supplement their starvation rations ... On Sundays, armed with guns and traps, [they] set out for the suburbs to hunt wild rabbits, starlings, squirrels, hedgehogs and polecats." Viscount Jowitt...
...Last week, after rereading the Bill of Rights, Judge Horrigan decided he had gone too far. He rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such stories it might be found in contempt of court. Meanwhile, the project's builders had slapped a $100,000 libel suit against the Herald. Unperturbed, Publisher Lee said: "We'll keep on printing the news when, where and how it occurs...