About 10 years ago, when I wrote a column showing that Dr. Lowry was involved in orchestrating the paid advertisement which was published in American newspapers denying the Armenian Genocide, he was so incensed that he sent an angry letter threatening to sue me for libel. He said that he was offended that I had called him "anti-Armenian." I guess he would have preferred to be called "pro-Turkish." What must have really irritated Dr. Lowry was my publicizing the names of the professors in American universities and the amounts they had received from the Institutes of Turkish Studies. By sheer coincidence, the names of many of these professors were found on the list of those who had signed the Turkish-paid ad denying the Armenian Genocide.In a phone conversation, Mr. Sassounian elaborated on the above. Apparently, when he wrote "threatening to sue me for libel", he didn't mean in any kind of off-hand sense. He received an official, legal-type document. He took it to some attorneys who called it the best they had seen in their 20 years of experience. It included the five pages of retraction that they wanted him to print in the place in his newspaper that his column normally appeared. He also mentioned that Lowry had done a similar thing with another Armenian journalist who did comply.Dr. Lowry demanded then that I publish a five-page retraction, which I, naturally, refused.