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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...
...paragraph halfway through its eight-page story, TIME said that a classified Appendix B to the report contained details of a sympathy call Sharon had made on the Gemayel family on Sept. 15, 1982, the day after Bashir's death. According to the magazine, the Defense Minister "reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge." Sharon acknowledges that he met with the Gemayels but denies that the subject of revenge came up. He contends, moreover, that TIME'S account implies that he encouraged or instigated the massacre. Time Inc. maintains that the contested...
TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave firmly expressed his confidence in both Halevy and the disputed paragraph about Sharon. "I believe [the story] then and now," said Cave. Asked by Gould if he thought the Kahan commission had any reason to believe Sharon had anticipated the massacre, Cave said no. "I think if he had, it would have horrified him and he would have prevented it on the spot." Henry Anatole Grunwald, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., also stood firmly behind the article, stating that he saw "no particular contradiction between the paragraph and the Kahan commission report...
...evidence only if attorneys from both sides are allowed direct access to them. In a statement attached to Sofaer's letter, Time Inc. attorneys said that the magazine would print an appropriate correction if their examination of all the relevant documents showed that the information in the disputed paragraph was not in the appendix or related materials. Time Inc., however, would continue to defend the substance of the story-that is, that Sharon discussed revenge with the Gemayels-as true. The Israeli Cabinet is expected to consider Sofaer's request next week...