European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 6, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page ii the stars and wednesday july olw7 the cars thai1 West to after Sar Fratos Tom Wicker a build  provided just because Whede Tejon itself but also  he came is the that that he by was not ready necessary for an adequate american nude deterrent since the cruise missile is becoming Avau alte therefore without apology Reed to Sperd Wilton provide the air Force with m4 any part of that amount for a making a solely on the basis is exactly Standard operating procedure have been built because they could be rather like die Man who climbed Everest be cause it was millions have been squandered on weapons Tor which re search and development had proceeded too far and too by Lime it became dear that the weapon was either unneeded outmoded or no it would have Cost More to halt production than to or the  be turned off in or nobody had the will to turn it not weapons and other military procurement have been authorized to provide jobs for a particular locality or an economic shot in the Arm for a favored just it was reported that members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation were Brinni inn pressures for continued production of Jesse Jackson in Kings death in the nine Yean since a snipers single Bullet stopped the mortal life of Martin Luther King the mystery of How Many fingers were on the trigger has the mystery int Only one of who financed and committed the As there is also the question of who financed and created the moral climate that led directly to Kings eight Yean the Law satisfied itself that James Earl Flay was the single mind and hand in Kings but All that has happened since then has made it increasingly evident that the Complex really of the assassination could not Nave been the solitary Handiwork of a Man who  even pass Muster As a firs class its brought the mystery into new and disturbing focus after years in the bureaucratic Maze is the desperate escape and dramatic recapture of Hes Back in his cell and its important that we dont let the questions that his escape resurrected go Back in there with please consider some of them with me then ask yourself if we dont owe it to our to our and to Kings memory to face All the facts of both the deed and of the times that stole him from the but not necessarily the most questions focus on Ray him the year before Kings Assassin Ray was a prisoner in doing Lime for an unremarkable Felon without record or reputation for nor for making big after he escaped his Missouri prison and before be was captured months later across the Atlantic in he had lived in Canada had raised and spent f to pursue King and then to and had somehow Man aged to Supply himself with plausible Idem Utica Lon and it seems no less remarkable that he managed to position himself in a boarding House window with a Clear line of sight Over roofs and into the courtyard of fir Kings Motel in City Ray had never before seen in his a succession of Ray confidants have maintained that he acted that he was a that he was part of a conspire Ray also has contradicted claiming responsibility and then darkly hinting of a moot recently he has spoken  about a Raoul who guided him to and through the As desperately As we need answers to these history and the full ire also urgently need to know How the climate was created that gave us James Earl Ray and some key answers Are hidden Ironi the department the guardian of our rights which sanctioned an Ocial getting operation so vindictive that its agents burst into cheers when they Learned that James Earl Ray bad silenced the voice they could these were the agents of the Federal Bureau of investigation assigned to Tain continual surveillance of every ele ment of Kings they did their Job with relish and eavesdropping on All King said with hidden watching All through telescopic lenses on their their Mission was not to preserve his rights in use but to discredit his with end and morally damage is one of those Fri now was Arthur he has told Bow a key unit in the investigation of Kings assassination was the very Core of the Fri getting Murtaugh has been quoted As saying that when King was the agent in charge of the unit i Hope the son of a Bitch Dies the Fri in 1s68 was an enthusiastic reflection of its directors will and sense of his hatred of or King was Well As was his fear of the subversive civil rights the Fri also knew something else the director had the ear and Confidence of the most none of them Ever told the director How to run his but All knew he ran it in the most useful Way be we need to know who helped Ray and but we obviously cant give the Fri principal responsibility for finding at least not until the Char Acter assassination plotted by it in our name has been totally exposed As Well As those responsible a to but the fit fighter the w to that although the Navy faster f14 in some instances we Pmj has been heavily influenced by consider sons increasing duct on in fort Worth might affect Ron of a Texas ejection weapon would be authorized president a dub  would be Cratl cod for risking the both the Raffl signal moguls Are Diperi at Al of were a Carter As an the 8 could have said research and commons that soviet intentions were to Lin and that strategic arms negotiations14 were moving so that the prudent thing to do was to go ahead Vruth some since that would been an economic Boon to Southern Cali and would have coincide of with the views of some of the most powerful own in Congress whose support on other issues Carter surely cow this course must have been As a far less Likely he could have shot Down the by with a blast at Mili tary spending and Antso Tveit Wii la promising to use the Money not spent on the bomber for various Domestic social Tea Democrat so Tittle loved by the party Liberal that might also have had its attractions Carter came Back to the Stark conclusion that by production promised so Little military advantage Over a Combina Tion of continued Reliance on the Biz and deployment of the cruise missile that us enormous outlays required for the bomber could not be but he Atoo i took pains to warn liberals that this u4 not mean billion would be immediately for social purposes cruise missile development is bound tube Carter even rejected the obvious com Promise producing maybe a third or half the number of Bis the air Force no doubt because that would Lead a surely s As night follows Day to production of in whole probably attn costs rising due i Thyl possibility of that in coming to a final decision based on tary and budget Carter made the wrong the air strategic thinkers obviously believe be As d congressional Hawks but Carter sew to be saying at his news conference Only two eventualities he considered drastic deterioration in relation with the soviet or an eventual Pur Idemance failure by the cruise missile 1 might cause him to have to t in All a determined Effort Congress to Force by production might a cause Carter to give to a but Fence a commander chief of the armed i recent limes has acted More decisive and forcefully than has this commands i deserves and is bound to receive great f what a in to former in Dent who complained at once tit Carter was taking too big Gamble Loo much of a risk with the National that not judgment but the absence of Sarae old weapons game that insists enough can t never re Silty be