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- <text id=92TT1202>
- <title>
- June 01, 1992: World:Et Cetera
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- June 01, 1992 RIO:Coming Together to Save the Earth
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 24
- WORLD
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p> UNFRIENDLY FIRE
- </p>
- <p> The potential for unintended assault from an ally's gun is
- a fact of life on the battlefield. But sometimes tragedy is
- avoidable. Last week a British inquest decided that two U.S.
- pilots had acted with reckless indifference to the rules of
- combat when they inadvertently killed nine English soldiers
- during the gulf war. The American officers, the jury determined,
- had failed to verify map coordinates for their targets before
- opening fire on vehicles they believed were Iraqi. The British
- government indicated it would not press charges against the
- pilots.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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