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...News reported that the rear rotor of the helicopter apparently struck the ship, but Pentagon sources said they could not confirm the report...
Meanwhile, in Baghdad, a team of Pentagon and State Department officials ended its investigation of the Stark attack. After meeting with Iraqi officials, Rear Admiral David Rogers, head of the U.S. delegation, said he was "certain we have the information to piece together what happened." He refused to confirm reports, however, that they had not spoken with the pilot who evidently mistook the Stark for an Iranian tanker and blasted the frigate with two Exocet missiles...
...Muller had anticipated, other physicists were skeptical. For one thing, the IBM scientists had lacked the sensitive equipment to test for the Meissner effect, the surest proof of superconductivity, and thus could not confirm it in their report. More important, in a field where improvements of a few degrees were reason for celebration, this great a temperature leap seemed unlikely. Douglas Finnemore, a physicist at Iowa State University, admits that he was among the doubters. "Our group read the paper," he says. "We held a meeting and decided there was nothing...
...unusual move, the Administration isexpected publicly to confirm today that Loury'snomination is not experiencing any trouble andthat it will be made in June. In the past theAdministration has prohibited its officials fromdiscussing for the record any details concerningnominations...
...spokesman for Thornburgh yesterday refused to confirm the offer of the FBI post. The spokesman said, however, that Thornburgh considers himself committed to head the Harvard institute...