The Nation - News from Oct. 5, 1989
Lawyers for both sides in a $100-million libel suit brought by a former prime minister of India against U.S. journalist Seymour Hersh rested their cases in the Chicago trial, with the jury expected to reach a verdict this week. Morarji Desai is suing Hersh over the claim in his 1983 book, “The Price of Power,” that Desai was paid $20,000 a year by the CIA during the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration to reveal Indian government secrets.
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