Word: select
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...started as a gaudy circus. When the House Select Committee on Assassinations was formed two years ago to investigate once again the killings of President John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., Congressmen vied for the limelight and fought with their abrasive chief counsel, Richard Sprague, who quit within a year. But, to the surprise of its early critics, the committee disciplined itself and did some meticulous though costly work (nearly $5 million by the end of this year). As its public hearings wind down, the committee's sober findings are reinforcing long established official conclusions about the deaths...
...singularly curious and inept of TIME to select Hans Küng to comment on the qualifications for the next Pope. Küng questions the fundamental bases of the papacy-its infallibility and primacy. Küng has been judged by such a competent theologian as Karl Rahner to be little different from a liberal Protestant in numerous of his opinions about the church. In fact, Küng has often sailed very close to objective heresy. Great choice indeed...
...decade, James Earl Ray has claimed that new evidence would nullify his own confession and prove his innocence of the murder of Martin Luther King-if only he could present it at a trial. For more than a year, staff members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations have hinted that they were developing evidence of a conspiracy to murder King. But when the imprisoned killer and the committee finally faced each other in a dramatic televised public hearing last week, Ray stood convicted as convincingly as ever of being the lone gunman who had stalked his prey across three...
Jackson promised to seek a meeting soon with Attorney General Griffin Bell to demand that the Justice Department take a "new look at evidence in the case" and to press for a new trial. Whether Ray receives it may depend on the findings of the House Select Committee on Assassinations. This week, the panel is scheduled to hear testimony from Ray and a number of black leaders...
...nearly two years of sometimes chaotic operations, the House Select Committee on Assassinations has shed little new light on the murders of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. But when the committee begins public hearings scheduled for next week, it will produce some evidence that, if nothing else, is bound to embarrass...