The Nation - News from Aug. 13, 1985

In a clarification of a confusing jury verdict, a judge dismissed all charges against the Boston Globe in a $50-million libel suit filed by John R. Lakian, an unsuccessful 1982 candidate for the Republican nomination for governor, and ruled that the newspaper could recover $200 in court costs from the plaintiff. The jury had found that three out of 55 paragraphs in an article published during the campaign were false and defamatory but it awarded no damages, and it rejected Lakian’s charges of invasion of privacy and infliction of emotional distress.