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Among the first to be verified was F-4D fighter-bomber pilot Lieut. Colonel Joseph Morrison, shot down on Nov. 25, 1968. He died after he parachuted safely to the ground. But the F-4D is a two-seat aircraft, and Pentagon analysts noted one photo of Morrison's personal effects showed an extra pistol; this led them to confirm the death of his back-seater San D. Francisco. Intelligence analysts now expect that the Hanoi museum material already in hand may clear up 23 of the 135 so-called discrepancy cases, where the U.S. knows an individual survived...
...openly defying Castro. He worked as a dishwasher, shoe salesman and milkman in Little Havana while editing an anti-Castro paper funded by Jose Bosch, the Bacardi rum magnate. Mas signed on with the aborted 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion and once tried to outfit a B-26 aircraft with bombs to hit Cuba's oil refineries...
...investigators from Holland, Israel and the U.S. examined what was left of the 13-year-old aircraft, mostly twisted metal shards, shock gave way to question upon question. Some answers may come from the badly damaged flight- data recorder, which searchers unearthed in the rubble and dispatched for analysis, first to Britain, then...
...Navy's streak of misfortune continues. A Sea Sparrow missile fired off the aircraft carrier Saratoga slammed into the bridge of a Turkish destroyer in the Aegean Sea, killing five sailors including the ship's captain. Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Frank Kelso could offer no explanation for the accident, but preliminary indications were that human error was to blame. The incident, which occurred during NATO joint maneuvers, is being investigated by a team of three senior U.S. admirals...
...rebellious Shi'ite Moslems of southern Iraq. But last week President Bush made good on his promise to keep Baghdad from bombing the rebels, declaring that any Iraqi fighter crossing south of the 32nd parallel would be shot down. As of week's end allied pilots reported no Iraqi aircraft in the "no-fly zone." Saddam's only comment: "We will choose the appropriate method and timing to confront this unjust, hostile decision...