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- <text id=92TT1943>
- <title>
- Aug. 31, 1992: No Gunmen for Rent
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 31, 1992 Woody Allen: Cries and Whispers
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- SOCIETY
- No Gunmen for Rent
- </hdr><body>
- <p>An appeals court rules a magazine liable for a public offer
- to kill
- </p>
- <p> A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in
- Montgomery, Alabama, has ruled that Soldier of Fortune magazine
- will have to pay $4.37 million in compensatory damages to Michael
- and Ian Braun. Their father, a businessman, was murdered in a
- contract killing set in motion by a 1985 classified ad headed GUN
- FOR HIRE and offering the "special skills" of a "professional
- mercenary." Two other businessmen, the advertiser, Richard
- Michael Savage, and an associate of his, were convicted of
- conspiracy in the murder. Soldier of Fortune, the court ruled,
- was negligent in publishing an ad that clearly indicated the
- advertiser was "ready, willing and able to use his gun to commit
- crimes" and presented a "danger of harm to the public."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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