Question: China's announcement of a rival Panchen Lama to the boy already recognized by the Dalai Lama are indications that its Communist regime is desperate in using any means possible to strengthen control over Tibet and Tibetan affairs.

Dalai Lama and the government of the People's Republic of China are in dispute over Panchen Lama's reincarnation.
Answer: yes
Question: In "Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, JR.", by Gerald Posner (Harvest/Harcourt Brace, $15), the writer who attacked Kennedy conspiracy theories in "Case Closed" takes on Ray's claim of innocence in the 1968 murder of King.

Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.
Answer: yes
Question: Three leading Japanese banks have announced an alliance forming the world's largest financial group. Fuji Bank, Dai-Ichi Kangyo and the Industrial Bank of Japan say their operations will be integrated by the spring of 2002.

Merger of Japanese Banks creates the world's biggest bank.
Answer:
yes