‘Time’ sued for $50M
NZPA-Reuter New York The former Israeli Defence Minister, Ariel Sharon, yesterday sued “Time” magazine for SUSSO million, saying that he had been libelled in a report about Israel’s inquiry into the massacre of Palestinians in west Beirut in September. A spokesman for Time Inc. said that the magazine stood by its story and had every intention of defending the suit. Mr Sharon said that he had been maliciously libelled in a section of the story that appeared in “Time’s” issue of February 21. In that section “Time” said that there was a secret
appendix to the official Israeli inquiry which stated that Mr Sharon had visited
the family of the assassinated Lebanese leader, Bashir Gemayel, and was reported to have told them the Israeli Army would move into west Beirut, and that he expected the Christian forces to go into the Palestinian refugee camps there. The same paragraph of the “Time” report said: “Sharon also reportedly discussed with the Gemayels the need for the Falangists to take revenge for the assassination of Bashir, but the details of the conversation are not known.” Mr Sharon in his suit denied taking part in any such discussions or making the statements attributed to him by “Time.”
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Press, 24 June 1983, Page 6
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