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Embarrassing the boss is never a good move. In September, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney fired General Michael Dugan as Air Force Chief of Staff for disclosing sensitive Air Force war plans for the Persian Gulf. Last week Vice Admiral Richard C. Gentz, head of the Naval Air Systems Command, became another casualty. He was sacked because he was in charge of an oversight system that failed to alert the Pentagon to problems in the Navy's A-12 attack-bomber program. That led Cheney to assure Congress in April that the plane was on schedule and on budget. In fact...
Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III ordered Gentz to retire by next February, ending a 33-year career. His top two subordinates overseeing the A- 12 Avenger, a carrier-based plane that will use stealth technology, were censured. A Navy report accused the Avenger's developers, McDonnell Douglas ! and General Dynamics, of falling behind on the aircraft and concealing this from the Navy. The report also blamed the excessive secrecy surrounding the A- 12 program for the failure of high-level Pentagon officials to spot flaws sooner in the contractors' rosy estimates...
...Carisile, Kim Stanford 2 00 34 1650-yd. FREESTYLE 1) Linehan, Kim Texas 15 58 52 2) Hannan Shern Stanford 16 11 56 100-yd. INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY 1) Borgmann, Carol Texas 0 56 97 2) Carlisle Kim Stanford 0 56 99 3 METER DIVING 1) Gentz, Crissy Minnesota 447 03 2) Hain, Michele S M U 437 61 400-yd. FREESTYLE RELAY 1) Stanford 3 19 70 2) U of Texas...
...Freestyle: Clifton (H), Lind (H), Beron (N) Time: 23.9; 200 Yd. Butterfly: Stanley (H), Neville (N), Jaffe (H) Time: 2:36.2; Dive: Stone (H), Murner (H), Pheris (N) Points 67.85; 100 Yd. Freestyle: Dyer (H), Lind (H), Peltier (N) Time: 51.0; 440 Yd. Freestyle: Seaton (H), Martin (N), Gentz (N) Time: 5:03.7; 200 Yd. Breaststroke: Stanley (H), Falk (H), Friederich (N) Time 2:31.8; 400 Yd. Freestyle Relay: Navy Time...
...VIRGINIA GENTZ...
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