The World - News from Sept. 9, 1985

Former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon’s two-year legal campaign against Time magazine moved to a Tel Aviv courtroom, where he has filed a libel suit. Time’s attorneys asked that the suit be dismissed, arguing that a U.S. court disposed of the matter in January. Sharon is suing Time over a report indicating he had previous knowledge of Christian Falangist plans to massacre Palestinians in Beirut refugee camps in September, 1982. The New York jury ruled that Time defamed Sharon, but it denied him damages for lack of proof that the article was malicious. Sharon need not prove malice under Israeli law.