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ABrAEZHeiKAMNEOnPITYOX'f'Q a x e >• h* W Qu c o 111 z 2 < ® X N UJ <J U 03 < Sorority Information Meeting and Open House January 11,1996 Ben Linder Room, EMU 6:00 - 9:00 p.m. > 09 “1 t> m N X 2 x > 2 z in O "O M H *< e x -€ I UrfcX<DAi:idLIOSNWV)iieHZ3VJHV MUSCLE PAIN RESEARCH STUDY If you are 18-55 years of age and you have had shoulder or leg pain tor no more than 3 days due to a recent injury, you may be eligible to participate in a research project to study the effectiveness and safety of Relafin*. 1 gm and 2 gm. compared with placebo, tor patients with acute onset moderate to severe leg or shoulder pain. (Relafin* is an approved drug and has been shown to be effective in the treatment of the signs and symptoms of arthritis pain.) Eligible participants will receive study-related medical care, laboratory testing, and study medication at no cost Call today Oregon Rmmtcfi Group 686-3804 IVaceHeJilth Medical Croup <AX> H»r»m Sttwrt S«l* 5.W ■ tuff** SUPER STUDENT SPECIAL! Cheese or Pepperoni STUDENT I.D. REQUIRED , «n*r gtx>d Sunday through Ihurxiav «iW 'y* « Wp» unljr Minimum f? 00 for deli\Yf> ' ifeiiaw.4 TRACK TOWN PIZZA Sr 484-2799 * Two convenient locutions to serve you: CAMPUS 1809 Franklin Blvd. WEST 2611 W. 11th & Wilson King’s death a mystery 28 years later ■ MURDER New evidence and a conspiracy theory continue to keep the case investigated, questioned The liM chapter in lh* my* tery shat still < ling* to the 2« Sar-old murder ciu unfold* m thii "1 wu her® on* day and « man laltwd me.” »*y* lawyer lewj* Gtrriton "He aatd. My wit# bat torn# information you'd probably be interested in I've been trying to get her to come forward for 25 year® But the'* oared ‘ "They tame tn the nett day or two They never tsked lor any money She Mid the had known Raul' down in Tetas She had a photograph of fhit Haul's cousin She gave the investiga tors names of people who knew him * Garrison |mum>v recalling hi* apprehemt senes* » hen hr fir*I heard all of this — n|w< iallv that name. Raul Thru. he *4y* Lvervthtng ha* checked. |u*l like I hr sun ruing and setting' Bui hi* quiet vox e came* a kind of wean OSM, Many considered the cane solved decade* ago. and yet it ha* never seemed to n»t Per haps because of all the sleuth* and diehard* drawn to it* heroic: victim Perhaps tires use of it* taciturn vilisin. Or perhaps be< ause of the tragic irony ol a tingle lead slug stopping histo ry The murder victim those i« year* ago Martin Luther King. It At the nation marks a day of remembrance Monday for King, the spellbinding preacher whose nonviolent crusade for civil right* won him the Nobel Peace Prise, there will be many speech** about hi* life But King'* death on a motel balcony in Memphis on April 4, 196*. will loom in the Wi gruund, along with an extraordi nary new round of claim* about who caused it. There * the claim of Glenda Grabow. who told Garrison about "Raul,** leading tome to believe they finally had found the shadowy. Latin-accented gunrunner long suggested a* a conspirator but dismissed •• imaginary by prosecutor* Awl than there * the Mom phi* restaurant owner who sought immunity from prase* utiun It he detailed the assassination plot in which hi* former wait re** implicated him And the man identified a* an ek-Sp*cial Force* told ter who tied military intelligence to the murder, a charge the Pentagon dismisses a* laughable The** purported lead* and many other* are detailed in a new book by William F. Pepper, a lawyer who marched wlib King but today represent* lame* Karl Ray. now serving a 90-year sentence a* King * killer In Order* to Ml The Truth About the Murder of Martin Ljuthet King. Pepper quote* sev eral people — aome by name and other* with pseudonym* — who mv they were personally involved to or were privy lo a complex plot to kill King The AmocMmI Plan contact ed many of Pepper'* *uun *** and investigator* who worked with him on the case and. with minor exception*. they *ay he wrote accurately about them Some even tried to ahow they had more to loae than lo gain by coming forward Still, it i* difficult to deter mine just who I* telling the truth, there are too many tea led document* and fictitious name*, and 28 years have passed Pepper assert* "The body of new evidence, if formally con sidered, would compel any independent grand fury ... lo i**u* indictments against perpe trator* who are still alive ” Hut prosecutors in Memphis continue to reject any notion of reopening the case, and di» c ount Pepper * lead*. "He wrote MM) page* of •up position* — and extrapolation* on supposition*." District Attor ney General John Pieratti aaid. Pierotti said some witneaaea Pepper quote* have given con flitting statement* to prosecu tion invest igatora In other case*, her Mid. those cited a* witness es are impossible to find "They're either dead or peo ple who wish to remain anony mous," Pmrotti Moiled 'That'* pretty dtffic »N to take to court “ Pepper's hook, released at the SAMVRA1 DVCK Authentic )fc\pAt1CSC Style Foot> Now ' avaIIaWc in the EMV Catering a Delivery else Available Cal 342-3884 and of JWi. waii pramied by • loiaviied mock trial for Ray on HBO in t««S. In which P»pp«r w*i famed by tele* t»»an produc er* who conilnu* to pr*»« for a ravMrw of the «'Mm.. *'Th«t whale thing ws* gone into •* i commritii) vwiutt," PtenrtU < haryvd “ft has not auc i«n*d«*d. anti now it |u*t draft* on * The mystery might have ended in • Memphis courtroom •bout a year after King's assas ••nation whan Ray pleaded guilty H* was then a haplesa thief who had been on the run to now mg a prison escape. Hi* fingerprint was found on a rifle dropped near ihe shooting •tew. official* celled II an open and shot case Many, including then FBI Director J F.dgar Hoover, twitt ed Kay had acted alone — that there were no other plotter* Yet even at he pleaded guilty. Kay dntaented. "I don't agree." he told the judge, "... about the conspiracy.*" Kay * cryptic comment plant ed a teed of doubt, and many other* followed Historians later revealed that Hoover's FBI had directed a years- long campaign of bugging and harassment against King In 1978. a special congressional investigation concluded that indeed a conspiracy had been behind King’s death, but that the government was not involved Then came reports of Army Intelligence units shadowing King all the way to Memphis. Some members of the House probe said it should be reopened For years, Hay has sought to retract his guilty plea, saying it was coerced Still pending in court am a hid for a new hearing and, separate ly. • civil lawsuit seeking dam ages against alleged conspirators, both named and unnamed After fleeing prison. Ray has always said, he made his way to Montreal, where he met a mys terious man named Raul, a gun runner who engaged Ray in his contraband smuggling and then set him up as a patsy, directing his movements up to the day of King s killing INDONESIAN CULTURAL NIGHT I rb Memorial t nion (l Nil ) Ballroom l m\cimi\ ol Oregon |atniar\ H, lvH)p 1 he making of Hank ai 6:00 pm Dinner star is ai b; .JO pm Orw Vdmi'Mon lor *>* tH> ItuJ.-ru M-ot StiuJrnr \ \mi min ODK Displav ^ertiMgy Wf-3712
