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Captain Monty Hoover, 32, likes commanding the 200 men of Bravo Company, who defend the airport's southern perimeter...
Even Captain Hoover, as gung-ho as he seems, knows the horrors. "I've lost a good friend," he said. A few days ear lier, the of his fellow captains was killed by sniper fire at the airport. For Hoover last week, three days before his head quarters was wiped out, the losses still seemed of emotionally manageable proportions. Casualties had happened one or a few at a time. "No one likes to hear about Marines being killed or wounded," Hoover said. "I've known half of the men who have been killed, one particularly well. That...
...year 2027. Though Helms claimed he wanted to know what the tapes might say about King's association with Communism, Helms' critics suspected that he was most interested in what the FBI had learned about King's active private life; the late FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who hated King, had planted many of his bugs under hotel beds. After the court denied his motion, Helms resumed the attack on the Senate floor...
Face red with fury, Kennedy shouted: "I am appalled at this attempt to misappropriate the memory of my brother[s] . . . If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would be the first person to say that Hoover's reckless campaign against Martin Luther King was a shame and a blot on American history...
...university's charter states that the institution "Shall forever be kept out of politics." The Hoover Institution, a Stanford political think-tank, is planning to build a museum. a library, and a center for public affairs named after the president. --The Stanford Daily