Word: paragrapher
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After eight weeks and 14 witnesses, the case of Sharon vs. Time Inc. culminated last week with vigorous summations by each side. It was now up to the jury to decide if, as the former Israeli Defense Minister contends, TIME magazine libeled him in a paragraph in its Feb. 21, 1983, cover story about an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in West Beirut...
...highly unusual arrangement with the Israeli government to allow limited access to secret documents involved in the case. After its representatives had seen . some, but not all, of the relevant documents, TIME issued a correction regarding one sentence (see box). But TIME asserted that the substance of the paragraph was true and protested that it had been denied access to key testimony given to Israeli investigators that could confirm the story...
Sharon's lawsuit is aimed at the 22nd paragraph in TIME's eight-page story, which reads as follows...
Sharon admits that he met with the Gemayels but denies that the topic of revenge came up. He has argued, publicly and in court, that TIME's paragraph in effect accused him of encouraging the massacre. TIME contends that the disputed passage does not accuse Sharon of fomenting the slaughter. The magazine further maintains that the paragraph's only meaning is that the subject of revenge came up in a talk between Sharon and the Phalangists and that it implies that the former Defense Minister must have been aware of the dangers of sending the militiamen into the camps without...
...evidence or suggestion" that Sharon discussed revenge with the Phalangists or "knew in advance that the Phalangists would massacre civilians" in the camps. Time's attorneys said that the magazine would print an appropriate correction if the examination of the documents showed that the information in the disputed paragraph was incorrect...