Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...keep his profile low. He is one of the most important members of Carter's inner circle and a close friend of the President's; Carter, in fact, often turns to the adman, who is more sophisticated than the native Georgians on the President's staff, for advice about movies to see and books to read. But despite this intimacy, Rafshoon is based not in the White House but across the street in the Old Executive Office Building, in the spacious quarters that were once Richard Nixon's hideaway study...
Wilson F. Minor, 56, bought the North side Reporter, a small suburban weekly, in 1973. With the help of a handful of regular advertisers and a skeleton staff, he has transformed it into the still small but unabashedly aggressive Capital Reporter (circ. 6,000). Politics is the paper's forte, and Minor's love. His uncanny eye for wrongdoing, along with a slew of sources developed during his 30 years with the New Orleans Times-Picayune, has breathed life into the paper's catchy motto: ONCE A WEEK, BUT NEVER WEAKLY...
...example, a second rank of Italian papabili, led by the able Archbishop of Florence, Giovanni Cardinal Benelli, 57. As Substitute Secretary of State under French Cardinal Jean Villot for a decade, Benelli wielded more power than his boss, acting effectively as the Pope's chief of staff. Paul rewarded him last year with a red hat and the Archdiocese of Florence, but he is still quite young. What is more, his often bruising man ner as the Pope's aide may have left too much blood on too many cassocks for him to win election this time...
DIED. Lo Jui-ching, 72, China's ex-Minister of Public Security under Mao Tse-tung throughout the 1950s, and later army chief of staff, who weathered political disgrace in the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s to make a remarkable comeback; of heart disease; in Peking. Lo was an early victim of the militaristic Red Guards, who led him to attempt a suicide jump from a besieged building. His literal fall from power broke only a leg but sidelined him until 1975, when he reappeared first with a minor military post, then on the Communist Party's Central...