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Even after the Senate censured him, Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd went ahead with plans to bring a libel suit against Columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. Most lawyers knew, however, that he had little chance of success in the wake of the Supreme Court's 1964 New York Times v. Sullivan decision, which makes it all but impossible for a public official to win libel suits unless he can prove malice by the defendant. Recognizing that fact, Dodd last week withdrew the libel action, though he continued to press suit against the newsmen for having conspired in the stealing...
...down our application on the table. There it is and there it remains." But in the face of so vehement a second veto, Britain may eventually have to come around to accepting some form of transitional association with the Common Market until De Gaulle is gone. Prime Minister Lester Pearson of Canada angrily denounced the general's "intervention" in Canadian domestic policies as "unacceptable" and "intolerable." Said Pearson: "I believe the statement distorted some Canadian history, misrepresented developments and wrongly predicted the future." The Frankfurter Rundschau suggested sarcastically that De Gaulle might next order "the Bundeswehr into action...
Died. John Franklin Carter, 70, author and onetime Washington columnist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. His 30-odd books of politics, economics and biography (La Guardia, Drew Pearson) were always bright, often incisive studies of the times and its men. His syndicated column, "We, The People," written from 1936 to 1948 under the pen name Jay Franklin, crisply and authoritatively chronicled the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations -and Carter scored one notable coup when, almost alone, he predicted HST's 1948 election victory...
Leak at Sea. Given Reagan's rep utation as a political Mr. Clean and Pearson's as a mud merchant who likes to zero in on conservatives, Reagan's vigorous denial should have left him in the clear. The trouble was that Lynn Nofziger, Reagan's communications director and one of his closest subordinates, had himself leaked a similar story to a number of reporters during last month's Governors' Conference aboard the S.S. Independence...
...version Nofziger had passed along privately to newsmen was in conflict with some details of the Pearson column but supported the essential element that two staff members suspected of homosexuality had been forced to resign. When challenged at the press conference about Nofziger's statements, Reagan said: "Nothing like that ever happened." Nofziger was standing near by, and Reagan asked: "Want to confirm it, Lynn?" "Confirmed," he replied...