Reno Asked to Look at New King Inquiry

President Clinton has asked the Justice Department to consider a request from the family of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to open a new investigation of his assassination 30 years ago. Rahm Emanuel, a senior advisor to the president, said on NBC-TV’s “Meet the Press” that Clinton would convey that news to Coretta Scott King, who last week made a public request of Clinton to appoint a commission to examine what she said is “new evidence” in her husband’s killing. Emanuel said Reno would decide how to proceed after examining any developments. A congressional committee and several probes have concluded that King was killed April 4, 1968, by James Earl Ray, acting alone.