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Nagging Questions. What grudge did Ray hold against King? What brought the two men to Memphis at a time when Ray, an escaped convict, was a restless wanderer always on the move be tween Montreal and Mexico? How did he finance 14 months on the run from prison? Where did he find the cash that paid for his 1966 white Mustang? His dancing lessons? A course at a Los Angeles bartenders' academy? How did he pay for his flight from Memphis to Toronto, and thence to Europe? Even Ray wanted to talk about a conspiracy at his trial...
...national holiday inItaly. The date marks the anniversary of three historic pacts: the Lateran Treaty, which formally constituted Vatican City as an independent territorial state; a financial accord, which indemnified the Pope for the 19th century confiscation of the Papal States; and a concordat* to settle religious matters be tween the Roman Catholic Church and the government of Italy. Signed by Fas cist Dictator Benito Mussolini and a representative of Pope Pius XI, the pacts successfully survived World War II, Mussolini's fall and even a new post war constitution. But as Italy marked the 40th anniversary...
...printed a continuing debate be tween Authors Isaac Asimov and Ar thur C. Clarke over the existence of a particle that travels faster than light...
...Olympics, Mexico was torn apart by savage gun battles be tween soldiers and students. Two months later, Brazil's generals, archetypes of the Latin American military elite, caught a whiff of dissent and hastily imposed a dictatorship on the continent's largest nation...
...celebrated Christmas Eve Mass for 7,000 steelworkers and their families. In his sermon, delivered from an altar made of rolled steel slabs, Paul deplored the "separation and lack of understanding" that divides the worlds of labor and religion. "It almost seems that there is no common language be tween you and us," he said. "But this estrangement has no reason to exist. The church knows you, studies you, interprets you and defends you, much more than you often think...