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...great to be part of a progressing program," he said. "Our success came as a surprise to me, because we hadn't trained more than 10 days prior to the competition...
...this pontificate is surely the white-garbed figure of John Paul descending from an aircraft, his arms spread wide, the familiar smile bestowed on a welcoming crowd. In his six years as Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, he covered 210,000 miles during the 24 foreign voyages prior to his current trip. No other religious leader has ever traveled so extensively or been seen in person by so many millions of people. No previous Pope, moreover, has placed such a determined emphasis on the unifying message that John Paul II has proclaimed as the reason for his travels...
...Prior to Byrdy's appearance, General Platek gave testimony that contradicted sworn statements by the very men that he had assigned to investigate the case. He claimed, for example, that because he was drowsy from the effect of sleeping pills, he had failed to realize the significance of the fact that a ministry car had been spotted in the city of Bydgoszcz the night of the priest's death. Platek also insisted that the date on a travel permit that Piotrowski had used the night Popieluszko was killed had been altered before it was turned over as evidence...
...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 to the massacre, be interpreted as having a meaning that defamed Sharon? If so, was the substance of the paragraph false? And if the answers to both these questions were yes, did TIME publish the paragraph "with a high degree of awareness" of its probable falsity? For Sharon...
Since TIME had already conceded that Appendix B did not state that Sharon discussed revenge with the Gemayels, the issue of truth for the jury focused on a single question: Had Sharon proved that "he did not engage in any discussion with the Phalangists, prior to the massacre, of the need to take revenge"? During the trial, Sharon relied principally on his own testimony to prove this point. He denied that he had ever discussed revenge--not just with the Lebanese, but with "anybody...