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...blindsiding of an American frigate caught with its defenses down by an Exocet missile seemed, on one level, nothing more than a tragic accident. No harm intended. No one really to blame. Regret and reparations offered. Yet, curiously, the fact that the tragedy seemed so dreadfully meaningless caused its ripples to swell and become more troublesome as the week wore on. A nation that had committed itself to building an expensive 600-ship Navy began to worry whether the ships might be sitting ducks whenever they sailed into harm's way. A nation that has been unable since Viet...
...sailing at Condition Three, the middle of five stages of alert, and its weapons systems were supposed to be fully manned and operational. But there was an inexplicable lapse, with key radars failing to detect the missile's launch and the Phalanx system remaining off. This was clearly a tragic failure for a vessel sailing in an area where more than 200 ships have been attacked during the past three years. "Everybody in town knew there was a war going on in the gulf except the Navy," says Jeffrey Record, a military analyst with the Hudson Institute. The Navy appointed...
...radars on the Stark should have detected the missiles after they left the Mirage. But for still unexplained reasons, they apparently did not. Thus no one on the ship was aware of the incoming warheads. The lapse would prove tragic. Despite the frigate's sophisticated gadgetry, the first word that she was under attack came in a most ancient seagoing manner: a lookout spotted the incoming "flying fish" skimming just 15 ft. above the water. Like Captain Ahab sighting Moby Dick, the sailor shouted a warning into his intercom to the bridge...
...deaths Orton and Halliwell meet do not hang over the story, and unlike other arty pictures with similar endings--Betty Blue comes to mind--life is not treated as an unnatural interregnum until death. Prick Up Your Ears joyously proclaims Orton's unbridled exuberance, not his untimely and truly tragic demise...
...Auschwitz ((RELIGION, May 4)). The reason for her beatification has to do mostly with the quality of her life, her deep belief, profound intellect and inspired spirituality. Far from dishonoring her Jewish roots, the Roman Catholic Church now honors her faith and the triumph of her spirit through her tragic death at the hands of the Nazis...