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...after telling the Memphis judge that he had indeed shot King, Ray injected an objection that has fanned conspiracy theories ever since. He said he did not agree with the conclusions, cited by Foreman, of the Tennessee attorney general, U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover that there was no conspiracy. But Ray refused to elaborate...
Mayer teases his reader in a subtler, more ambiguous way as well. Sandwiched between jibes at Yiddish, first love and Herbert Hoover is an apparently serious statement about American politics, values and mores. But the reader is never quite sure when Mayer crosses the line between humor and conviction. The angels in Heaven bustle about designing portable restrooms, and manna and nectar refreshment concessions for the up-coming gala bimillenium. ("We're expecting millions of tourists," Mary tells Brinkley.) The bumbling corruption of Soviet-American disarmament negotiators and the CIA's school for assassins are cleverly ridiculed, but the caricatures...
...Drug Enforcement Administration. They are still suffering from the backlash against the civil rights violations committed by some overzealous agents in the 1960s and early 1970s. In addition, the FBI has not yet settled down from the inevitable turmoil that followed the death of Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1972; its parent, the Justice Department, has been disoriented by a revolving door at the top: five chiefs since...
Articles based on some of Kaplan's documents are scheduled to appear in forthcoming issues of the Italian magazine Panorama. The Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif., is trying to bring Kaplan and his cache...
Anderson, a Hoover Institute researcher and former political adviser to Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan: "The Carter plan represents massive Government intervention in the energy economy. It will lead to more shortages and higher prices, more inflation and a depressed economy...