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...become a pariah to the embattled Administration. White House aides depict North as an overzealous underling who misled his colleagues and superiors and perverted the President's foreign policy. When a high-ranking Reagan official asked about inviting North for dinner, the State Department's legal adviser, Abraham Sofaer, told him to "forget...
...reason both sides were able to claim victory was that, in an unusual procedure, Federal Judge Abraham Sofaer had asked the jury to disclose its partial findings step by step instead of deciding all elements of the case before announcing a verdict. On their third day of deliberations, the jurors said that they interpreted the disputed paragraph, which reported on discussions Sharon had held with Lebanese Christian Phalangists before the massacre, as having a defamatory meaning. Two days later they announced their conclusion that the contested passage was false. In deciding last week for TIME on "actual malice," the third...
...until four weeks ago that Sofaer was able to work out an arrangement with the Israeli government whereby representatives of TIME and Sharon examined Appendix B and related documents. After TIME's Israeli lawyer was permitted to view some, but not all, of the relevant documents, the magazine printed a retraction (Jan. 21) stating that Appendix B did not contain details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayels and expressing its regret. During the trial, Halevy explained that he had inferred that these details were in Appendix B from talks with Israeli officials and from the Kahan report. While admitting...
After taking eleven days to reach their verdict, the jurors earned high marks for their methodical approach. Before dismissing the jurors, Sofaer told them he had been "impressed, indeed awed" by their diligence. In interviews with newspapers and TV stations later, several of the jurors explained how the deliberations had gone. Lydia Burdick, 35, said they decided the passage had a defamatory meaning because it "went far beyond" the Kahan report. Patricia De Loatch, 27, a marketing specialist for AT&T, said she concluded that the TIME paragraph was false because the magazine had not offered evidence to back...
...other hand, Judge Sofaer's decision to have the jury announce its interim findings before reaching a final verdict bothered some. They felt it would encourage others to seek the partial vindication that might be claimed from even an unsuccessful suit. "Sharon got the jury saying TIME lied about him," said Robert Comstock, editor of New Jersey's Bergen County Record. "I think there are other officials who would like to have a jury say that too." To Eugene Roberts, executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, "it was clearly a political suit." The trend toward such suits, he said, amounts...