Word: libelous
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...kickbacks from three Tel Aviv religious institutions. The bribes were allegedly for directing ministerial funds to yeshivot (religious schools) that did not in fact exist. As the storm broke over his head, Abuhatzeira appeared on Israeli television and cockily denounced the stories as "provocation and a libel...
Although campaigning for the Oct. 5 national elections does not officially begin until next week, a vicious war of character assassination, borderline libel, slanderous posters, films and campaign buttons has been raging for weeks in West Germany. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, leader of the ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats, has been smeared as a megalomaniac, a "war Chancellor" and a "tool of Moscow." His conservative challenger, Bavaria's Minister-President Franz Josef Strauss, has been dubbed a fascist, "a danger to us all" and "a prisoner of uncontrollable emotion...
...more than a decade outraged environmentalists have marched countless companies into court on charges that they are polluting nature. But a corporation has turned the tables and sued the environmentalists for libel. One year ago, Rick Webb, 31, coordinator of West Virginia Mountain Stream Monitors Project, an environmental group, charged in his sporadically produced newsletter that the strip-mine operation of the D.L.M. Coal Corp. of Buckhannon, W. Va., had "destroyed" seven miles of trout streams on the Buckhannon River as a result of sulfuric acid and iron poisoning. Webb's complaint helped result in a federal inspection...
Though firms normally are reluctant to challenge such allegations in court because the cases can result in bad publicity, D.L.M. decided to fight. Last month it filed a $200,000 libel suit charging that Webb's account was "totally false and untrue, defamatory and libelous, intentionally and maliciously published...
Then Newsweek, Inc.'s fledgling monthly Inside Sports came out with a profile suggesting that the stresses of the couple's separate careers have produced an uneasy, sexually troubled marriage, confusing to Garvey and frustrating to his wife. The Garveys responded with an $11.2 million suit charging libel and invasion of privacy. By last week, as they took further steps to try to prevent the Los Angeles Herald Examiner from reprinting the article, the former golden couple found themselves embroiled in a raucous legal wrangle that touched on some fundamental constitutional issues...