Show Page 13 Student Life Wednesday May 12 1976 James Earl Ray Bribery inquest may hit US business Assassins bid rejected CINCINNATI (AP) — James to overturn his guilty plea in the slaying of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr was rejected Monday by the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals The court said Ray’s contention that he anticipated a reopening of his case “is at best highly Earl Ray’s bid “It more likely that he simply reasoned that a shrewd attorney might find a way to overturn his conviction regardless of the voluntariness of the plea” the court said in rejecting Ray’s appeal for a new trial One of Ray’s attorneys Robert I Livingston said he will ask the US Supreme Court to review the appeal is The unanimous decision con- cluded that US District Judge Robert B McRae of Memphis Tenn was correct in February when he refused an appeal after a hearing on the events that led to Ray’s March 10 1969 guilty plea in Shelby County Tenn Ray is serving a prison 1975 99-ye- ar term Another of Ray’s attorneys James H Lesar contended that Ray did not fatally shoot King in Memphis Tenn on April 4 1968 Lesar argued that former defense attorney Percy Foreman coerced Ray into a guilty plea and that Ray had been framed However Lesar said he had no information about who actually shot King The district court ruled that Ray had not proven claims that either Foreman or Ray’s previous attorney Arthur Hanes was more interested in profiteering from books about the case New quakes damage Italian museum Italy (AP) — New tremors jolted northeast Italy on Monday toppling weakened houses and damaging a national museum A rainstorm added to the misery of the displaced thousands living in tent cities The press and some survivors said that the government’s res-cu- e efforts had been inadequate and badly organized No new casualties were reported 'from two sharp tremors recorded early Monday The national police in Rome listed the death toll at 815 but employes in the office coordinating rescue work here said 914 bodies had been recovered and 400 persons were mising An overnight rainstorm turned the crowded tent cities into lakes of muc In Gemona one' of the towns hardest hit by the quake survivors pulled wooden planks from the remains of houses to make paths through the mud Officials reported heavy dam- age to the National Archeological Museum in Cividale del Friuli an ancient Roman city 1C miles from this provincial capital as well as to churches and other old buildthe ings The officials said and remains Roman museum’s medieval art treasures would be transferred to a safer place The damages in Cividale added to a lengthening list of art works and historic monuments ravaged some 50 by the earthquake and aftershocks Art experts urged rescue workers ot to distrub the rubble of ancient churches and thus jeopardize their eventual UDINE restoration Virtually all the ancient castles and towers in the area were reported damaged or destroyed including the famed castles of The Gemona and Collordeo towers of several medieval churches collapsed The complaints from survivors centered on the unsanitary conditions lack of organization and absence of hot food in tent camps set up by the Interior Ministry Conditions appeared to be better in camps organized by the military Dr Salvo Catania a physician serving a tent camp in Gemona said: "There was no organization at all when I arrived There were no drugs no squads searching for survivors and injured for 24 hours We had to light fires in the middle of fields to sew them up” Doctors said that for the moment there was no danger of epidemic as 80 percent of the survivors had received shots against typhoid and cholera But they said lack of sanitary facilities and garbage disposal could cause problems in coming weeks I L Messaggero a leftist newsacpaper and Rome’s largest of ‘overcused the government looking some stricken villages for three days after the quake and sending inadequate supplies to hard-hi- t areas Turin’s StampaSera said the quake had revealed national failures” Government officials reported that the accusations were politieleccally motivated National June in Italy tions are scheduled than in defending him The appellate judges said they disapproved of the fee arrangement between Ray and the lawyers which was based on publication profits but the judges said this did not prove he did not receive a good defense The district court found that Foreman did not induce Ray to plead guilty and that Ray understood the stipulations of his guilty e murder as plea to explained by Judge Preston Battle The court rnoted that Ray said he did not necessarily agree with US Atty Gen Ramsay Clark and FBI Director J Edgar Hoover that there was no conspiracy Both courts found that although some government procedures including screening Ray’s mail copying his letters and monitoring his conversations in jail were improper “they did not prevent him from communicating with his attorneys or cause any actual prejudice to the rights first-degre- of Ray” NEW YORK (AP) — Apprehension exists in much of the American business community that the focus of bribery investigations might shift from abroad to reveal similar scandals domes- tically Federal agencies have tended to skirt the subject but some American executives state privately that they feel questionable practices are common among some concerns operating within the United States They are concerned about the ramifications of probes into the standards and practices of domestic business and fear damage to the nation’s economy Some are advocating by their industries self-polici- The extent of activities that might fall within interpretations of illegal or unethical conduct would require an investigation to ascertain but one executive well informed about marketing activities commented: “It will be a shock when people realize the extent of it in large companies” One major problem for investigators is in defining conduct that is unacceptable Certain practices have over the years come to be accepted as standard operating procedure within industries but might be considered unethical by others Spiffing — or paying a retail clerk to push a manufacturer’s product — is defended not only as an effective marketing technique but as a practice given legal justification by the Robinson-Pat-ma- n Act However some executives and most likely some of the buying public have doubts that the public is best served by giving a clerk $10 per item to promote one product over another regardless of the comparative qualities Bribery a marketing man explained would be to pay the purchasing agent of the company to buy the product from the manufacturer But whathe failed to note is that the impact on the public might be the very same Locksmiths Gunsmiths ATKEHM SPEOM Puma softball shoes 150 Reg 1900 Eagle 76 training shoe 2000 Reg 20-2- 1 Spotbilt Baseball shoes Harwood softballs Tube Socks All Reg Reg 2766 EL3 350 Reg 175 Wood Bats (Special Group) 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