Word: libelous
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...indicating that Franz Josef Strauss and the Christian Social Union got Lockheed money. Strauss, the longtime right-wing strongman and leader of Bavaria's C.S.U., has been identified by Ernest F. Hauser, a former Lockheed European sales manager, as a receiver of Lockheed largesse; Strauss is suing Hauser for libel. When Strauss was Defense Minister in 1958, West Germany decided to order Starfighters?grimly known as "widow makers" in Germany because 178 of them have crashed...
...changes. Muller had criticized the industry as a whole, but the Bern activists titled their pamphlet Nestle Kills Babies. They also omitted some of Muller's qualifying remarks and included a preface that singled out Nestle for an accusation of "unethical and immoral" behavior. Nestle sued for libel, and the trial began last November in Bern. The controversy has stimulated great interest throughout Switzerland, 80,000 of whose 6½ million inhabitants are Nestle shareholders...
...tirade didn't stop there. The Hamills threatened court-libel action, while other reporters, looking for a different angle, called Shantz and me up. We stood firmly to our stories as they appeared in print, and fortunately our publishers had supreme confidence in our integrity. But who is the average American going to believe--a beautiful girl with tears in her eyes, or two journalists just trying to do their jobs...
...worthy of praise for his effort, particularly since this is the New Hampshire primary season, usually the Union Leader's peak power period. The book has quickly become the largest seller in the history of New Hampshire. Both Loeb and Governor Meldrim Thomson have sued Cash for libel, and Loeb's personal history is suddenly a topic of national curiosity...
That the book made it into print at all is a minor miracle. Loeb has a reputation for launching libel actions at the drop of a pejorative: New Times and the Boston Globe are currently facing Loeb suits totaling $7.5 million. Eleven publishers shied away from Cash's manuscript, and three libel insurance firms refused to underwrite his possible legal defense costs. Cash finally formed his own publishing house, Amoskeag Press, Inc. (from an old Indian name...