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...turret explosion on the U.S.S. Iowa that in April killed 47 sailors, the Naval Investigative Service considered a bizarre theory: that Navy petty officer Kendall Truitt may have set off the explosion to collect on a $100,000 insurance policy taken out by a sailor killed in the blast. The story was guaranteed a full airing when Pentagon sources privately confirmed the investigation to the press...
...blast was so strong it shattered windows in a village seven miles away and incinerated dozens of acres of trees, a TV correspondent said in a report from Chelyabinsk, the biggest city near the site...
...turret blew up on April 19 during practice firing on the battleship U.S.S. Iowa, the Navy presented one of the heroes of | the disaster at a press conference: Gunner's Mate Third Class Kendall Truitt, 21, who had been sacking powder in a lower-level magazine when the blast took 47 lives. A bespectacled sailor with a mild manner, Truitt calmly recounted his escape from the burning turret. Last week the Navy's inconclusive probe of the explosion took a bizarre twist, and Truitt was shoved front and center again -- but hardly as a hero. Investigators said Truitt might have...
These competing theories surfaced as the Naval Investigative Service conceded it has failed, in its review of the training, equipment and gunpowder involved, to find a technical explanation for the explosion. The idea that the blast was no accident arose largely from a report that Truitt and Hartwig had been such close friends that in 1987 each had made the other the beneficiary of a life insurance policy for $50,000, with double indemnity in case of accidental death. According to Hartwig's sister Kathleen Kubicina, 36, of Cleveland, the friendship ended last year when Truitt married. While Truitt last...
...candidate seeking election goes on television to accuse one of his country's leading politicians of corruption. The injured politician denounces his accuser. The government launches an investigation, and the investigators blast the candidate. The incident would not be out of place in a Western capital. But this, last week, was the Soviet Union, which is finding that one side effect of glasnost is political alley fighting in public...