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Almost before the sound of the shots died away, conspiracy theorists began questioning whether Sirhan Bishara Sirhan acted alone on June 5, 1968 when he killed Senator Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel. Last week, a seven-man panel of forensic experts cleared up some of the controversies about the shooting. But their carefully hedged findings left unanswered other troublesome questions about what actually did happen during the flurry of violence that left Kennedy dying on the hotel pantry's concrete floor...
...experts demolished this hypothetical line of reasoning by determining that the Kennedy bullet had two grooves like the others. What was more, by comparing all three bullets closely, the panel was able to decide unequivocally that they all were fired by the same...
Trying to answer that basic question, the experts discovered that the bullet-marking characteristics of Sirhan's Iver Johnson .22-cal. revolver had changed since the night it was fired in the Ambassador Hotel. The panel found that the inside of the barrel was fouled by a thin layer of copper alloy that probably stemmed from test firings by the Los Angeles police. The panel squeezed off eight shots into a tank of water, compared the bullets with the original three, studied the barrel of Sirhan's gun, and finally gave up. They announced that they could...
...Commission of Inquiry, a five-member student-faculty panel that investigates complaints within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, last week took steps to stop what it believes is the "unnecessary embarrassment" caused by media coverage of stories about students "actually or potentially involved" in disciplinary cases...
WHAT TAX REFORM is to the House Ways and Means Committee, housing reform is to the Harvard administration: an annoyingly perennial issue never resolved because of its complexity and volatility. This year, while the congressional panel makes another try at overhauling U.S. tax structure, Harvard is once again attempting to tackle the troublesome issue of how to house its undergraduates...