The Nation - News from April 26, 1988

Republican presidential contender Pat Robertson has been ordered to pay $28,000 of court costs incurred by a former congressman he had sued for questioning his war record, lawyers said. The clerk of U.S. District Court in Washington rejected $14,845 of the $42,845 sought by ex-Rep. Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey (R-Menlo Park), following the dismissal last month of Robertson’s $35-million libel action. McCloskey was sued in 1986 after he claimed that Robertson had used the political influence of his late father, Sen. A. Willis Robertson (D-Va.), to avoid combat duty during the Korean War. Robertson dropped the lawsuit last month rather than go to trial on March 8, when he ran in Republican primaries on Super Tuesday.