Word: libellous
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...FLIP SIDE of the old saw about politics making strange bed-fellows is that it can also make weird sparring partners. In June Renata Adler published two long articles in successive issues of The New Yorker on the libel trials of General William Westmoreland v. CBS and General Ariel Sharon v. Time Magazine. The pieces were a full-scale assault on the libel laws and a scathing attack on the two media giants for bungling--and then vehemently defending--their stories on the two former commandants...
...editor-in-chief of Time sent Shawn a similar letter. Publication of the articles in book form was delayed as lawyers pored over CBS's and Time's accusations and Adler's rebuttals. Meanwhile, one of the intelligence analysts who testifed at the Westmoreland trial himself sued Adler for libel...
...News as a researcher and soon became a producer of documentaries. As head of the CBS Reports unit, he oversaw acclaimed documentaries like the five-part series The Defense of the United States, as well as The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, the program that triggered a much publicized libel suit by General William Westmoreland. (Though Stringer did not have a major hand in the documentary, Westmoreland's lawyers revealed that in an off-the-record talk with a reporter he had voiced doubts about the objectivity of the program's producer, George Crile...
...second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1951, ask his father, then a U.S. Senator from Virginia, to use his pull to help the young man avoid combat duty in Korea? After fielding reporters' questions about the allegation, Robertson last week launched a counterattack. He filed two libel suits for $35 million each in Washington federal court against his accusers, former Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey Jr. and Democratic Congressman Andrew Jacobs Jr. of Indiana. "I may become a candidate for President of the United States," said Robertson, who last month announced a campaign to obtain 3 million signatures and financial...
...died in 1971.) "We are going to have to do something to put this thing down," said a Robertson aide earlier this month. "It's getting out of hand." The suits dramatize Robertson's intention to fight any hint that he sought to evade combat duty in Korea. In libel cases, however, the burden of proof is on the plaintiff. It is likely to be difficult for Robertson to prove that his father did not use senatorial influence to protect him from combat. But if he is hoping that the prospect of an expensive, time-consuming suit will force...