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MICKEY MANTLE FBI kept a file on the Yankee slugger. Did Hoover hope "switch hitter" meant something else...
...Martin Luther King Jr. about his assassination 30 years ago? The King family claims that convicted assassin James Earl Ray, who died last week, was just a fall guy caught up in a sweeping conspiracy that included then President Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J. Edgar Hoover, several army units, organized crime figures, the owner of a Memphis diner and, one presumes, space aliens. Talk about a no-win situation. If Reno decides the allegations merit creation of the new "truth" commission the family wants, she is giving credence to outlandish conspiracy theories. If she concludes there...
...There's a battle among Hashimoto's own people," says Baumohl. "Many of them are intent on further reducing the budget deficit -- tax reduction would knock them off that course." But in recessionary times, belt-tightening (as the U.S. learned under Herbert Hoover) can be disastrous. Instead of leading the recovery in Asia, Japan's doldrums are suppressing it. The rest of the world is waiting...
...HERBERT HOOVER...
...nonviolence never swerved. From the time he assumed leadership of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott in 1955 to his murder 13 years later, he faced hundreds of death threats. His home in Montgomery was bombed, with his wife and young children inside. He was hounded by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which bugged his telephone and hotel rooms, circulated salacious gossip about him and even tried to force him into committing suicide after he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. As King told the story, the defining moment of his life came during the early days...