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- <text id=92TT2290>
- <title>
- Oct. 12, 1992: Nation:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Oct. 12, 1992 Perot:HE'S BACK!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- NATION
- Et Cetera
- </hdr><body>
- <p> FRIENDLY FIRE
- </p>
- <p> The U.S. 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.
- </p>
- <p> TEMPORARY RELIEF
- </p>
- <p> Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has won a big one
- in the legal wrangles leading toward his trial in connection with
- the Iran-contra affair. Federal Judge Thomas Hogan in
- Washington dismissed a critical count charging Weinberger with
- obstruction of Congress in concealing the existence of more than
- 1,700 pages of handwritten notes taken during key meetings in
- 1985 and 1986. Weinberger still faces counts of lying to
- Congress about Saudi financial support for the contras and
- delivery of U.S. missiles to Iran.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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