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...framers of the Bill of Rights surely had loftier disputes in mind. But last week a federal judge in Denver invoked the First Amendment guarantee of free speech in ruling that calling someone a "sleaze bag" who "slimed up from the bayou" does not constitute slander. When Football Coach Darrel ("Mouse") Davis used those words to describe Sports Agent J. Harrison Henderson III, he was free to express his opinion, according to Judge Jim Carrigan. The judge dismissed a suit for at least $12 million in damages that Henderson had filed against Davis and two newspapers that printed the remark...
...charges leveled against him by Colonel Roberto Diaz Herrera. There are problems in which each man is the creator of his own tribulations. We public figures are exposed to all kinds of slander. In this case, everyone knows that this former colleague suffers from mental disturbances that have been exploited by some. We all feel sorry...
...like Panama, it receives a rebuff not only from Latin American people but also from Americans with good sense. We are a real democracy. Our parliament is composed of blacks, Indians, whites and mixed races. This is Panama. You have to live here to understand it and not to slander...
...Treblinka death camp, has entered its 13th week, with a verdict expected next fall. Last week Austrian President and former United Nations Secretary- General Kurt Waldheim, 68, recently barred from entering the U.S. on suspicion of abetting Nazi crimes, ordered a state prosecutor to file suit for slander / against Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, for claiming that Waldheim had been "part and parcel" of the Nazi machine. Still awaiting final review of his case, although he was given the death penalty in absentia, is Karl Linnas, 67, the first naturalized American to be stripped of his citizenship...
Every political position has a tendency to demonize those who don't agree with it. Communist states and military dictatorships do it with a passion, but it is no stranger to American politics, either. Senator Joe McCarthy made his brief and infamous career out of slander and innuendo in the 1950s and the Left and Right have traded accusations of "communism" and "fascism" for decades. But why do otherwise intelligent and rational people have to resort to such character assassination? And why does it continue to happen on university campuses, of all places...