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The American newsmagazine Time will not retract its report on Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's health nor will it tender an apology, the magazine's New Delhi bureau chief, Alex Perry, told rediff.com on Thursday evening.
Perry, who wrote the controversial report that enraged some sections of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the central government, was reacting to a report earlier in the day quoting 'government sources' as saying that Time had tendered a written apology to the government and was willing to withdraw the story.
A Time magazine official said Managing Editor James Kelley had merely written to the government clarifying a part relating to External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh and a quote attributed to a foreign diplomat.
Last week too, a Time spokesman in New York had said that the magazine stood by the report, a stand Perry has also consistently maintained.
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