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...well chosen, for it is really written as a cry in the wilderness. Faced with systematic rejection from what Santilli claims are vested interests that exercise almost monopolistic control over physics research in the U.S. he saw no other option but to make a public appeal for recognition and redress of what he calls "scientific corruption at the highest levels of academia...
...Meriwether of the Miami Herald: "The ability of CBS to put on a rousing defense was well noted, and I would hope that this has raised red flags among potential plaintiffs. Libel litigation has not proved to be either effective or efficient as the forum in which to seek redress for alleged wrongs." First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams, whose clients have included the New York Times, agreed: "General Westmoreland is clearly the loser . . . The immense risk in seeking vindication is that you will actually worsen your own reputation." But Editor Gene Roberts of the Philadelphia Inquirer contended, "Westmoreland proved that...
...that he enjoys the respect of his community. As Shakespeare's foulest villain, Iago, puts it in Othello, "Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls." That is why the concepts of slander and libel, and of the right of the aggrieved to seek redress for defamation, were introduced into English common law during the Middle Ages and why those ideas survive in U.S. law today...
While such cases determined that the Government could not sue for libel, the question remained whether public officials who claimed injury as individuals were entitled to seek redress. That issue was at the heart of the defining case for modern American libel law, New York Times vs. Sullivan. The dispute involved a political advertisement, critical of Alabama law enforcement and containing inconsequential errors of fact, that appeared in the Times during the black struggle for civil rights. Several officials, who were mentioned in the ad by function although not by name, sued, ostensibly to recoup their reputations. In fact...
...change occurs, U.S. officials charged with deciphering Soviet affairs do not expect any radical departures in Kremlin policy. To understate the case, Soviet leaders do not rise to the top by advocating brilliantly unorthodox ideas. Says one Kremlinologist: "There are no young Turks in the Kremlin waiting to redress the wrongs of previous generations." But Soviet policy may become less predictable as new leaders relatively unfamiliar to the West acquire authority...