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...Abraham Sofaer outlined the complex issues that the four women and two men on the jury had to evaluate. In reaching a verdict on former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon's $50 million libel suit against Time Inc., he explained, they faced three sets of questions about a single paragraph in TIME's 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. First, could the disputed passage, which reported on discussions Sharon had with Lebanese Christian Phalangist leaders prior...
...unusual move, Sofaer asked the jury to report publicly their answers at each stage. After 14 hours of deliberations, the jury announced on Wednesday that it had found for Sharon on the first question. The paragraph, said the jury, implied that Sharon "consciously intended" to permit the Phalangists to take revenge by deliberately killing noncombatants in the camps. It took the jury an additional 20 hours of deliberation, which continued through Friday afternoon, to find that the disputed paragraph was in fact false. At week's end the jurors were still debating the question of malice...
...Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, and several other military officials shared an "indirect" responsibility for the massacre by Lebanese Phalangist soldiers of hundreds of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila that began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel. In one paragraph of its article, TIME reported that a secret appendix to the commission's published report--known as Appendix B--contained "further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family on the day after Bashir Gemayel's assassination...
Almost two years after Minister Sharon began litigation against TIME over this paragraph, the Israeli government has permitted an Israeli attorney representing TIME to examine this secret appendix. Based upon this examination last week, TIME now issues a correction: Appendix B does not contain further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family. TIME regrets that error...
TIME stands by the substance of the paragraph in question: that "Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Phalangists to take revenge for the assassination of Bashir, but the details of the conversation are not known." TIME did not say, and has never said, that Sharon intended that the Phalangists commit a massacre, or encouraged such a massacre...