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...inconclusive, leaving investigators to rely on Ray's confession. Questions about the FBI's assertion that Ray acted alone surrounded the case from the beginning, including criticisms that the government conducted a sloppy, incomplete investigation. Critics have also wondered about the FBI theory that Ray, a small-time, incompetent crook could have singlehandedly evaded a police dragnet and left the country before finally being caught in London. While Ray, who lies close to death from liver disease in a Tennessee prison hospital, did not attend Thursday's hearing in the Shelby County Criminal Court, members of King's family...
...never been one for conspiracy theories, but the King murder is one case that needs reopening. The official story put together by the FBI--that Ray acted alone--is just too flaky. I've never understood how a bumbling petty crook like Ray, who was once nabbed by police as he re-entered the window of a business he had just robbed to steal a few more items, could singlehandedly evade a police dragnet in Memphis, Tennessee, drive a conspicuous white Mustang all the way to Atlanta, then get out of the country and journey as far as Portugal before...
...enough. But the stock market is rarely so gracious. That's worth noting as the Dow Jones industrial average flirts with a record 6000. What the market serves up one day it can steal back the next, and we are long overdue for an encounter with this sometime crook's larcenous side. Some thought a meeting was in store last summer. But after a brief lull, this unprecedented bull market was off and charging again. It's now been six years since the broader market gauge, the Standard & Poor's 500, fell as much as 10%--twice as long...
Agnew even managed to leave office quietly and to fade back into obscurity. Nixon thrashed about hideously for months, refusing to surrender his audio tapes and firing a special prosecutor and insisting that he was not a crook...
...fact that these two women are so different yet similar presents a lesson for us all. No matter what side of the political fence we happen to be on, it is healthy to stop and think about the things we have in common. MARGARET CROOK Boston...