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...Boorda knowingly award himself medal embellishments he did not earn? It would appear so. He received two commendations for serving in combat areas during the Vietnam War: first as weapons officer aboard the U.S.S. John R. Craig in 1965 and later as executive officer aboard the U.S.S. Brooke for 14 months from 1971 to 1973. But neither citation specifies that Boorda was qualified for the combat V--which, according to Navy rules, goes only to "individuals who are exposed to personal hazard due to direct hostile action...
...safe as any other. "ValuJet has never experienced a fatality," he said. On Saturday, however, he had the grim duty of announcing that a ValuJet DC-9 carrying 104 passengers and five crew members had plunged into the Everglades while trying to return to Miami International Airport, killing everyone aboard. The accident, in the midst of a 120-day surveillance of the airline's operations by the Federal Aviation Administration, seemed certain to increase the FAA's concerns about the airline's safety...
...week's end U.S. helicopters had ferried more than 1,000 foreigners to neighboring countries. To step up the rescue operation, the Pentagon dispatched some 4,000 troops, including Marines, from the Mediterranean to the West African coast aboard a five-ship flotilla. The mission, however, is limited to evacuating Americans and other foreigners. Liberians have no exit from the ring of hell that surrounds them...
...launched by the monarch herself in 1967. Both the House of Windsor and the money-losing cruise-ship company, a division of Britain's Trafalgar House PLC, have endured a series of public calamities--although at least the toilets haven't been exploding in Buckingham Palace, as they were aboard the QE2 during its infamous Cruise to Hell in late...
Terner was aboard the plane, according to family friend Patrick J. Kudmore, because the secretary of commerce valued Kudmore's expertise as a housing developer...