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According to the TIME story, a secret appendix to the Kahan report contains information about Sharon's visit with the Gemayel family. Under questioning by Judge Abraham Sofaer and Sharon's lawyer Milton Gould, Halevy conceded that he had not been told directly by a source what the appendix contained, but that he had inferred it from strong hints from Israeli officials and other circumstantial evidence...
...appendix remains shrouded in Israel's secrecy laws. Judge Sofaer, at the request of both TIME's and Sharon's lawyers, has asked the Israeli government to allow both parties in the suit to examine the appendix as well as notes taken by Israeli officials at the meetings between Sharon and the Gemayel family. The Israeli government has agreed to allow Sofaer to submit written questions about the contents of these documents, but only to Kahan. At week's end the matter remained unresolved...
...state doctrine, which holds that a U.S. court is not the proper place to debate the actions of a foreign government. They added that the refusal of the Israeli government to release key documents, including the disputed appendix, made a fair trial impossible. U.S. District Court Judge Abraham Sofaer denied Time Inc.'s motion. He ruled, however, that one of Sharon's claims, that TIME has a "vicious bias" against Jews or Israel, "is so unsubstantiated that no evidence will be allowed...
...Sharon sat on a front bench, his wife Lili with him, Judge Sofaer began the trial by instructing the six-person jury on the legal definition of libel. Drawing upon U.S. Supreme Court rulings on what a public figure must show to prove "actual malice," Sofaer said Sharon's lawyers must demonstrate not only that the TIME paragraph was "false and defamatory" but that the magazine published it with "conscious awareness of falsity or with serious doubts as to the truth...
...first hint of astronomy among the Southwest's original settlers had come a few years earlier when Artist Anna Sofaer was photographing spiral petroglyphs in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, once the center of a flourishing Indian civilization. The carvings had been left by the area's former inhabitants, the Anasazi. For hundreds of years they lived in the canyon, creating astonishing multistoried cliff dwellings, only to vanish mysteriously at the start of the 14th century. Sofaer, visiting the site around the time of the summer solstice, noticed that a beam of sunlight sliced right through...