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Imagine the same revealing pose with Burt Reynolds surrounded by Mary Lou Retton, Mary Decker, Valerie Brisco-Hooks and Nancy Hogshead in the buff. Had it been the female U.S. Olympic winners rather than the male, they might have been asked to give up their gold medals...
...When Dan Burt, the attorney for retired General William Westmoreland in his $120 million libel suit against CBS News, made his opening statement to the jury last week, he relied heavily on assertions about the intentions of the producers of the documentary in question, The Uncounted Enemy. Among the most compelling evidence that CBS must face is its own in-house investigation, which Burt forced it to make public. Ironically, just as the case came to trial, a federal judge threw out most of a precedent-setting earlier case-also involving CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace and a Viet...
Westmoreland's case is being handled by Dan Burt of the Capital Legal Foundation, which finances its activities through donations from major conservative foundations. CBS is being represented by David Boies, a partner in the prestigious New York City law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. Both sides have spent more than $5 million preparing for the trial. Together they have examined more than 200,000 pages of Government documents, reviewed more than 50,000 pages of CBS's notes and files, and deposed more than 50 witnesses (Westmoreland's testimony encompasses 2,000 pages, and Reporter Mike...
...pretrial conference late last week, Burt told Judge Leval that Westmoreland planned to narrow his suit "to make the trial measurably easier." Burt said he will focus primarily on refuting what he claims is CBS's implication that Johnson and the Joint Chiefs had been willfully deceived by the reporting from Viet Nam; Burt then dropped the charge that CBS had libeled Westmoreland by accusing the general of misleading Congress and the public. Boies said that the move showed "the case is beginning to unravel." The trial, which may last as long as four months, is nevertheless expected...
...Mondale told TIME last week. "I think the Soviets and maybe many others misunderstand our campaigns and our two-party system. I wanted them to know that we want these talks to succeed." Administration officials seemed unperturbed by the prospect of Gromyko sitting down with the political opposition. Said Burt: "I hope Mondale softens...