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- THE WEEK, Page 25NATIONEt Cetera
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- FRIENDLY FIRE
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- 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.
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- TEMPORARY RELIEF
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- 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.
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