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...In these circumstances, Time can be accused of acting hastily, and perhaps of floating an ideologically motivated distortion, but not of knowingly printing an outright lie...

...New York City Charles Falk...

...policy did not materialize among the American delegates," perhaps that tells us something about them, not about the logic and defensibili-ty of U.S...

...to be intruding upon the evenings" of its "friends" by telephoning them for contributions at dinner time merely "because some consulting firm figured out that a lot of people are at home between 6 p.m...

...In the case of General Westmoreland's withdrawn suit against CBS News, it is especially hard to see what Roche is driving at: The General failed to prove that the network had been inaccurate, let alone deliberately mendacious, in charging that he had doctored our "kill counts" as commander of U.S...

...New York City Edward Roth Fund'Raising Since Walter Goodman objects so strongly to the fund-raising efforts of "worthy groups like the American Cancer Society," though not to the groups themselves, he ought to suggest an alternative ("Give...

...Perhaps, as he believes, it is "unbecoming for the New York Public Library...

...As for the claim of Countess Marion Donhoff, proprietor of Hamburg's Die Zeit, that Europeans are " more frightened by the United States than by the Russians," it calls into question her right to be regarded as any kind of ally, doubting or otherwise...

...Nonetheless, his account of the arguments put forward by "Anthony Lewis of the New York Times and the coven of apocalyptic columnists'' is misleading...

...It appears that upon entering the precincts of the Naples Institute of Oriental Studies last June to participate inaconferenceon Europe's role in the East-West confrontation, Daniels' usually acute powers of judgment were dimmed...

...Should the library see to it that they are made when potential benefactors are likely not to be at home...

...This implies that CBS and Time lied, although the court found otherwise...

...Surely the Reagan Administration has made it quite clear that itregards SRI, rightly orwrongly, asawayoutof agreements that merely refocus the arms race on new offensive weapons...

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...Certainly one would have expected him to criticize the dubious arguments raised there with greater force...

...Still, isn't reaching people the point of placing the calls in the first place...

...NL, March 25...

...Yet by keeping the appendix secret the Israeli government, not Time, ensured that its contents would become an object of wild speculation...

...Nothing they said remotely suggests that the First Amendment had in their view been designed "to protect not only the right to lie, but the right to lie without fear of any consequences...

...foreign policy under Ronald Reagan...

...Sharon, moreover, may not have planned or ordered the massacre at Shatila and Sabra, but he did have extensive contact with the Lebanese Phalangist forces that committed it—just before it occurred...

...Finally, if "support for U.S...

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...General Ariel Sharon's case against Time had more merit, since the magazine had clearly erred in claiming that a secret appendix to an official Israeli report on the 1982 massacre at two Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut had held him partly responsible for the disaster...

...The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), for example, may be a very bad idea, but is it really true, as Jean Klein [of the Paris Institute for International Relations) boldly claims, that "not even the Americans can explain what kind of strategy it represents...

...Miami Edward Brown Libel John P. Roche is probably right when he implies that the Left's hostility to last spring's libel suits brought by General William C. Westmoreland against CBS News and General Ariel Sharon against Time magazine reflected a concern for its own speech, not for free speech in the abstract ("The 'Chilling' of John P. Roche," NL, May 6-20...