ew hope
for. Black life
expectancy
The New York
Times names
Black columnist
NEWYORK.NY-�c of
April marked a significant change
at the New Yorlc Tones. Tbe daily
newspq>tt named i first Bid
eolumnst, He' Bob Hetbert­
former reporter and columnst for
theNew YorlcDaily News.lm 001-
umnwilleppeartwiceaweek.ljer­
bettis'4&.
Archer is
dodging them
D f'R rr, MI-Mayoral [i
of Dennis Archer claim that the
candida1e' octing like "he ha> it in
the bag so he n't have k> pre­
sent hirme1f the people, "
Arcber did rot � on the
recent WWJ-AM "Ask the CaOOi­
da " talk radio how and did not
appear or the May 10th t¢lg 0
a candidat forum for Oanrel
20; ''Transition'', set to air May 16.
Otha' mayoral candidates in­
cluding Otuck Cam, Paul Hul>­
bard and Sharon McPhail say that
Archer's campaign strategy i in
effect, dodging them.
Archer trongly disagrees y­
ing that he has been all over the
city. He continued to say that �
vioes engageme�ndWing an
out of fa engagement with M
and an appcarnnce before a corn­
munity up-kcpt him from the
infonnald
But McPhalland Hubbard id
they rearranged their scbedul to
appear on tbc ho .
"You don't gIve up an hour of
prune radio time " M Phail said.
T m Bell, WWJ' direct>r of
new ard programming, aid
Archer id be would return d
her WWJ. Schcdul-
ingprobl hav ited the
nro da has l
Health plan
is "dead"
without Blacks
mem r
>n h
care.
BY PHIL WEST
"It' e relief. And the ovemor
m y not be eein t'," Pepper 'd
durin a ne conferen held one hour after
cWherter m t with reporters.
Ki ,in Memphis to upport triking anita-
tion workers, w gunn d down April 4, 1 ,
he tood on balcony of th Lonai ot I.
Ray, then 40 fled Memp . but w ted
in London and returned to the· United S on
July 19, 1968, to tand trial. Ray pleaded guilty
to th murd r d never tood trial. He lat r
claimed to have been tric ed into the pi but
his appeals have been unsuccessful.
P pper id th evidence di losed that
The FBI fltSt claimed only a bullet frag­
m nt taken from Ki ' body available for
balti ti t ting. The FBI later produced a
"mu hroomed" lug. A Memphis police detec­
tive who witn ed the lug' removal from
King' body aid th real lug had not flattened
out, or m broomed. He aid it could not have
come from Ray' rifle.
Ray left th area n th Lorrai ne tel
ore the fatal bot w fired.
Wit told investigators of two figures
in bus near th motel. Tho e bushes were cut
down early th next morning.
PI ter of footprints bowed one of
the m n in the bushes wore a size 13-14 hoe,
much larger than Ray. The footprint belonged to
arotber man laying at the roomi ho near
the Lorraine Mot I.
The FBI i sued a news release on April 3,
1�, criticizin King for petX!ing nigh at
white-owned motels. The next day, King de­
cided to tay overnight at the l..onaine. He w
moved - on orders from men who were never
identified - from a ecure room to one from
which h w bot.
"What thi bow you' that there w a
comprehensive, widespread conspiracy involv­
ing priva and public forces," Pepper aid.
"We're a fair way down th road to identify­
ing wbo they are."
HVl .-Gov. ed
ay hi rm will end with Jam Earl R y till
behind b IS for the 1 layin of civil righ
lead r Martin Luther King Jr.
Ray' lawyer i tryin t convince
McWh rter rei e hi client, who com
and I ter recanted hi dmi I D killing King
inM mphi..
"Jam Earl Ray w in prison wh D I w
worn in in January 1987. I anticip caving
here in January 1 5. I ume h '11 be there
wh n I leave," M Wherter aid.
The gov mor h the r ponsibility to feed
and ho e pri n rs not determine whether th
should be there in the first pi ,McWherter aid
at a Thu day n w conferenc .
"I'm di pointed to hear that," aid lawyer
William F. Pepper of London.
PEP W JOINED at the new confer-
ence by tbe Rev. James Law on 0 Los Angel ,
a former King ocia who w in Memphis at
the tim of tbe ination, and Dr. Barnard
Lafayette, p ident of American Bible College
In Nashville and. former coordinator of King'
Poor Peop , Campaign.
"My reading is we have an innocent-man in
prison, It eems to me th legal sy tem should be
flexible enough reconsider," Lawson aid.
Pepper aid he tried to introduce much of the
Dew evidence during the Ray' moe trial pro­
duced by Thames Television am shown OD the
Hom Box Office cable television channel.
The judge in the mock trial, a retired U.s.
District Court judge, excluded more than half of
the evidence, Pepper aid.
"I HAD A RY eonstru tive conversation
with his counsel tbi morning."
Pepper, Ray' lawyer ince 1 7, filed more
than 650 pag of legal documents and evidence
wi th McWherter legal counsel David Well .
Pepper called on McWherter to invoke a lrt­
tl -used ection ofTenn ee law that allow the
governor to examine new evidence once all ju­
dicial review h been completed.
W�OA F ROOUEMOf£ C •
Detroit's outstanding student achievers in grades kindergarten and faculty of Wayne Community Community College. The theme of
through 12 were honored with a reception sponsored by students the reception was ·Positive Pride In Our Public scnocts".
o p}-Gov.
Low 11 P. WeI er Jr. and ey law­
m ers have a reed on ad cgre a­
uon plan for pubh cbo Is that
w uld Include aU cines nd towns in
th � t and drop raci quo , Sen.
K vm Sullivan aid.
Th -chat rmen of the Le la-
ture' Educalton Commltt
WeI r and Education Comnlls-
. Ion r Vi ent L. Fcrrandmo met
Fnday nd \! or ed out an a J1 mcnt,
aId Sulltvan, D-W t Hartford, on
of t co-chamn n.
Th Welcker adIIDru tration in
January pro ed dividm th tate
i nt lX re oru. wi th each regIon re­
ponslble forcomln up WIth I own
d egrc bon plan. Welcker pro­
po d ta fundmg for rna t
chool ,cooperativ programs, with
school eventually being required to
meet racial percentages b ed on the
minonty percentag in the region.
The Education Committee crafted
legi lation that ept tb regionaliza­
lion rdea, but excluded 29 towns in
the n rtheast and northwest comers
of t ta because they are so far
fr m urban areas wh re mo t minor­
Ity studen at pd chool .
Bu I I t appeal' d that Weic r .
w.ould veto that bill.
ID tum, Weicker agreed that racial
quotas could b left out of the legis­
lation, Sullivan aid;
The leg lanon approved the
Edocauon and Appropriation com­
mit call for regional plans that
"enhance tudent diversity and
awareness of diversIty."
SullIvan rod he bell the lan-
guage I enou h to encoura e in -
gration.
"llu I a complex' ue: h
aid. "It' not a ut num e ,It'
about opporturuty."
looked well upon" Sullivan said.
.. And programs that m rely move
tuden around WI U not be favor d,
eit r."
D Welcker and
were teadf tin de-­
manding t t the entire ta be tn­
c1ud�d in th plan.
"We're probably persuaded that
thls 1 mething the entire tate
could benefit from," Sullivan . d.
H
come up for revie
DepartmeDt.
uTho e pi
thing to CKld
that don t do any­
dive ity will not be
co
"Taking the
Justice at his
word, it's an
unfortunate
involvement in a
matter that
justice are
. u� 0 fid 0
avoid. "
UP E COURT justices are
not bound by the u.s. judiciary cod
of conduct, but "they alway adhere
to rbe cano of judicial ethi ," Su­
preme Court pokesrnan Ed Tum r
said.
When ed about the dinner in
Atlanta, Turner aid:" Ju rice
-Tbomas w not aware, at the time, it
w a fund-raiser. He w told that it
w not a fund-rai er."
Turner called b k to revise his
tatemem, J nee Thomas "did not
think then and he do not think now
that thi w a fund-raiser.'
"Taking the justice at hi word,
it' an unfortunate involvement 10 a
matter that j ti are uppo ed to .
avoid," said Geoffrey D. Hazard Jr.,
a Yale Unive ity law prof or. "If
he did know, then be viol ted the
tandards that jud have in general
long recognized they oould conform
to."
The di nn r w nOt intended to
rai e money, foundation President
Matthew GI vin i . ted Thursday.
expected to
While Suprem Court justic
often make peech they ually
are at larg functio ,uch con-
vennons or cbool graduations and
not private dinners.
Federal judg are exp ly for-
bidden to peak or appear the g t
o honor at fund-rai ers, according t
the Adrmrustrauve 0 flee 0 the U.S.
Courts' 'Guide to Judi ial Policies
and Procedu