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...supply vital intelligence to the Americans were sometimes left behind. General Smith, however, did call in 16 U.S. Marine guards from the embassy to keep Vietnamese army and air force officers from elbowing civilians aside and filling the planes. On April 25 he had to summon an entire platoon of 43 Marines to hold at bay frantic Vietnamese airmen who had climbed over the fence at night...
...virus, the threat of plague, a White House crisis-oh, and a pretty blond child set up for a big bad monkey bite-aren't enough for one doomsday movie; the military has to go bats as well. We can only surmise that back in 1986, when he produced Platoon, Kopelson contracted a deadly strain of the con-spiracy virus from Oliver Stone...
...have to raise more money to run for President'?" Most important, powerful Republicans in Sacramento are pressuring Wilson not to relinquish the governorship to the capable but liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Gray Davis. Wilson, however, has a history of overcoming tactical ob-stacles with the grit of a Marine platoon leader showing recruits how to scale a roped wall, which he once did. In 28 years of elective politics, Wilson has lost just one election, the gubernatorial primary in 1978. He has won nine: two for state assemblyman in the '60s, three for mayor of San Diego...
...Sanders is also a modern athlete, and as such he can be a huge pain in the butt. In the spring of 1993 he refused to return to the Braves after his father's funeral because he did not enjoy his platoon role; and when the club suspended him, Sanders called that "the worst betrayal by a team in all sports history." Though there's nothing major on his rap sheet, Sanders' penchant for trouble is well documented. Perhaps his greatest crime, though, was icing, which is a minor infraction in hockey but a major felony when it involves...
...science than to its dramatic and mythic qualities. Richard Slotkin, professor of English at Wesleyan University, says the show echoes the pioneer stories that dominate American history and literature. "What's so appealing about Star Trek is that it takes the old frontier myth and crosses it with a platoon movie," Slotkin says. "Instead of the whites against the Indians, you have a multiethnic crew against the Romulans and Klingons...