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...methods are commendable for orderliness and courtesy. The issues at stake are more serious than the indeed serious threat to marine life that you cite. The Clamshell protesters are crusaders in the vital cause of saving us and the generations to come from the terracide being risked by reckless and shortsighted officialdom...
...spectators and a triumphant cacophony of horns rose faintly to his ears from 1,350 feet below, and he saluted his admirers with a wave. Then Willig turned and fell into the burly arms of the law. He was fingerprinted and questioned, then booked on charges of criminal trespass, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct. The city threatened to sue him for $250,000 in damages-citing the cost of mobilizing the police force, the trouble caused by the traffic jams, the price of a police helicopter that had hovered fretfully overhead...
Alioto wearily lowered his sights. He reduced his claims to $500,000, for "loss of reputation, mortification and hurt feelings," and offered the case to a judge sitting without jury. Last week U.S. District Judge William W. Schwarzer found the now defunct magazine had shown "reckless disregard" for damaging inaccuracies in the article by Freelancers Richard Carlson and Lance Brisson. He awarded Alioto a judgment of $350,000 plus court costs (estimated at about $50,000). Said Alioto: "How sweet it is." Cowles Communications Inc., which published Look, is now primarily an investment firm headquartered in Daytona Beach...
...originating from abroad." In a TV speech, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing said flatly that no French troops would fight in Zaire, but emphasized that France had not wanted its African friends "to feel abandoned when their security is threatened." Answering protests that his support for Mobutu was reckless, Giscard declared that it was absurd to speculate that his action could lead to "another French Viet...
...memoir Papa Hemingway, had successfully sued Doubleday & Co. for publishing Spanish Author José Luis Castillo-Puche's opinion in yet another Hemingway memoir that Hotchner was a "toady," a "hypocrite" and an "exploiter" of Hemingway's friendship. But because Hotchner and his lawyers failed to prove "reckless disregard for the truth" on the part of Doubleday, Judge Lumbard reversed the pro-Hotchner decision. Publishers, the judge continued, cannot self-censor every opinion expressed in their books; if they did, free speech would vanish. Hotchner, in Paris to write another book, greeted the news of the court...