Word: reporter
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Until then, most of the committee members had been convinced that Oswald had acted alone, but they began hunting for a conspiracy. The report notes that the Mafia had good reason to hate the Kennedys because of Attorney General Robert Kennedy's crackdown on organized crime. The committee concedes that "it was unable to identify the other gunman or the nature and extent of the conspiracy." But it nonetheless concludes that it was "possible" that "an individual organized crime leader, or a small combination of leaders," had conspired to murder the President...
...committee's findings on the King assassination are equally suspect. The report speaks of a "likelihood of conspiracy" Unking a St. Louis patent attorney, now dead, and several associates with James Earl Ray Jr., the convicted slayer of King. Maybe so, but the committee offers no proof...
...with the view that there was enough evidence in both the King and Kennedy cases to warrant the Justice Department's continuing the investigation, although nothing was found to overturn the basic conclusion of the Warren Commission 15 years ago: that Oswald had acted alone. Discussing the House report, Michigan Congressman Harold Sawyer, a dissenting member of the committee, called it "supposition upon supposition upon supposition." A former prosecutor, Sawyer was asked what he would have done in his old job if someone had laid the report in his lap. Said he: "I'd have...
...death throes of the Khmers as a people. A nation that once numbered between 7 million and 8 million people is now believed to total only 4 million to 5 million. Much of the country's farm land has been devastated by war, and refugees report that the Vietnamese forces are shipping to their own country what little rice is now being grown in Cambodia. French doctors who recently visited the country fear that it could be swept by bubonic plague...
...welter of recriminations, sadly enough, a crucial OAU report warning of "impending disaster" for Africa's deteriorating economies was given short shrift. The perfunctory debate over the study, which recommended the creation of a Common Market for the continent, tended to justify a sad remark by Liberian President William Tolbert. Most issues, concluded the OAU host and conference chairman, had been "decisively unaddressed...