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Ray admitted assassination; seeking freedom in two years
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — James Earl Ray admitted assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and accepted a 99-year prison term because he thinks he will be out of prison in two years, Shelby County District Atty. Phil M. Canale said yesterday.
Canale, appearing on a televised news conference, WHBQ's Press Conference, said Ray told his attorney, Percy Foreman of Houston "He would be free in two years."
Ray was a fugitive from the Missouri State Prison when he says he shot the Nobel Peace Prize-winning civil rights leader April 4,1968.
But Canale said Ray was not specific with Foreman as to whether he would attempt to gain his freedom through the courts or through a prison break.
Ray was transferred to the Tennessee State Prison last Tuesday—the day after he appeared in court to admit the
Chinese clash with Soviets in island fight
MOSCOW - Russians rallied in factories and schools across the Soviet Union today to protest the latest border battle with Communist China. The Soviets disclosed for the first time they had shelled Chinese positions in repelling the "raiders."
Peking mocked the Soviet leaders as "mad dogs" and vowed they would be destroyed.
Soviet students and workers massed to hear accounts of how a handful of "heroic" Soviet border guards held off 3,000 attacking Chinese Saturday on Damansky Island, a tiny disputed piece of land on the Ussuri River frontier east of Manchuria.
Pravda, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, announced today the Soviets had used a "powerful artillery barrage" against "numerous" Chinese gun positions, then followed up with a swift counterattack "to sweep the raiders off Damansky Island."
It was believed the largest clash between the two Communist giants. Although no official casualties were announced, reports reaching Moscow said the Soviet toll was high.
HONG KONG — Communist Chinese Chairman Mao Tse-tung has warned the Soviet Union the Chinese people will "deal seriously" with any further border intrusions, Peking Radio said yesterday.
"We warned them-give up!" the broadcast reported Mao as saying. "This is a fire that cannot be played with. So watch your heads."
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Canale pointed out that the 99-year prison term Ray accepted was the stiffest penalty possible under Tennessee law, aside from death in an electric chair that has not been used since 1960.
The law provides that Ray must serve at least 30 years before he would be eligible for parole. If he had gone to trial and been sentenced to life he would have been eligible for parole in 15 years,7 months.
Campus unrest subsides
SAN FRANCISCO - Secret talks were underway yesterday which could end the nation's oldest campus disruption—the months old students strike at San Francisco State College.
There were other signs of a possible lull in the winter-long series of campus outbursts.
Sit-ins were over at New York State University's Potsdam and New York's Sarah Lawrence and Briarcliff Colleges. A strike of cafeteria workers which resulted in clashes between students and police at North Carolina A & T University was ended. The two-month-long student strike at
the University of California was suspended. A sit-in at the University of Pittsburgh was terminated, although the administration was weighing a new set of student demands for changes in grading procedures and better pay for staff members.
Strike rallies cancelled
Although there was no report of progress from the San Francisco State meetings, two strike rallies were cancelled because of the talks and the campus remained quiet through the weekend.
But, a strike of 200 black students which has kept the southeast campus of Chicago City College shut down for five of the past seven school days was expected to continue today. The school administration planned to resume classes by holding them at two museums and in a Near North Side park.
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