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...eventually allowed TIME to depose three low-ranking officials, but it still forbade the magazine's lawyers to talk with the most important witnesses. TIME's attorneys especially wanted to interview Major General Yehoshua Saguy, the former director of military intelligence who attended meetings with the Phalangists, and General Rafael Eitan, Sharon's chief of staff. According to the Kahan commission, Eitan had warned Sharon of the possibility of revenge at three meetings the day the massacre began. On one occasion Eitan said, "They're seething with a feeling of revenge," and he spoke of "rivers of blood." TIME...
Barr then reviewed the Kahan report in detail, citing passages that buttressed TIME's contention that Sharon had discussed revenge with the Phalangists. The Kahan report disputed key points of Sharon's testimony before the commission, Barr said. Sharon, for example, contended that Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan ordered the Phalangists into the camps; the report concluded that Sharon also made the decision. Contrary to the impression Sharon tried to create during the trial, the former Defense Minister had been warned of the consequences of his decision even as the Phalangists were preparing to enter the camps. In one instance...
...putting Boy George on the cover, they're conveying the idea that this is androgyny, when it really isn't," said Rafael A. Ruiz...
Antonia Moreno was getting her husband Rafael, a warehouse janitor, off to work. "The earth shook and we heard thunder," she recalled. "We could see flames all over the sky and a lot of black smoke." The couple fled with two of their children (two others were spending the night with their grandmother). They dashed out of their tin-roofed, corrugated-cardboard hillside house and began running. They saw their neighbors running too, many in their nightshirts or underwear. "Some people were half-naked, and they burned their feet because the ground was so hot," Antonia Moreno said. "Nobody...
...staffers in a four-hour opening statement. Barr showed newspaper and magazine articles to support his claim that the Defense Minister had been severely criticized in the press before TIME'S article was published. Barr also quoted warnings about the Phalangists' violent reputation, including Israeli Lieut. General Rafael Eitan's statement to the Israeli Cabinet before the massacre that the militiamen would enter the camps and "have just one thing left to do, and that is revenge." As for the proper interpretation of the disputed paragraph, Barr said he would leave it up to the jury...