Word: snipering
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...streets of Atlanta last week, honoring the 47th birthday of her slain husband by leading a band of protesters demanding jobs for the unemployed. Before he died, Martin Luther King Jr. had been immersed in planning a Poor People's Campaign with the same goal. Then came the sniper's shot that killed him in Memphis on April 4, 1968, the two-month pursuit of his killer, and the swift conviction of a smirking, small-time thief named James Earl Ray. Yet nearly eight years later, the widespread feeling still persists that King's murder...
...fresh investigation of the King case, TIME has learned that a Justice Department review of the FBI's work will conclude there is no evidence of any kind that the FBI 1) helped arrange the killing, or 2) failed to do everything it could to run down the sniper and any conspirators. Since the FBI is an arm of the Justice Department, of course, that will carry little weight with most critics of the FBI's role. A more independent review would be required to still all doubts, and in fact Justice officials apparently will urge that...
...office because they are a trust in their hands. Thank you." Last week the A.P. reporters returned and found that somebody had left a note underneath the first one. "We are deeply sorry," it said, in equally flowery Arabic, "but we damaged the building because there was a sniper...
...wars impose an ugly risk on the reporters sent to cover them, for sniper fire recognizes no neutrals. So far, two reporters-one Iranian and one Lebanese-have been killed and several others wounded. "There are no rules in this game," says U.P.I. Correspondent Michael Keats, who lost his car to a bomb...
...national carnage has been in Beirut; at least 3,000 people have been killed, 6,000 wounded, in a city of 1,500,000. Those who managed to reach hospitals last week could rarely find an empty bed. They may have been better off on the floors, since continual sniper fire raked some wards. Water, food, medical supplies, gasoline and electricity were running low. Estimated property damage and revenue loss passed the $2 billion mark. Most international businesses and banks whose headquarters are in Beirut have now left to settle elsewhere. By the end of last week...