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WASHINGTON -- Air Force Lieut. Colonel Randy May is charged with 26 counts of negligent homicide for his role in the downing of two U.S. helicopters over northern Iraq last April. The charges are not his first "official" recognition from the military. More than three years ago, during the Gulf War, May downed an Iraqi Hind helicopter in the same area and received a Distinguished Flying Cross for his "professional competence, aerial skill and devotion to duty...
...than it could deliver. The military has not proved adept at manhunts: it failed to arrest Aidid or kill Iraq's Saddam Hussein, and spent two frustrating weeks before it arrested Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott said two weeks ago that the apprehension of Lieut. General Raoul Cedras and the Haitian junta is a "dead certainty," but such comments make Pentagon officials very nervous...
...from Clinton's remarks, released late this afternoon as two U.S. aircraft carriers swept toward the island nation's coastline, contain a final warning to the Haitian military leadership: "Your time is up. Leave now or we will force you from power." Haiti's ruling triumvirate sent mixed signals: Lieut. General Raoul Cedras, the capo, told CBS News he was prepared to leave "under certain conditions" but that he had flatly rejected a reported U.S. offer to slip away into cushy exile. He also warned that a "long, extended civil war and a bloodbath" would follow his departure...
Former Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin's lawsuit against the Las Vegas Hilton--where she claims she was groped during the 1991 Tailhook convention--went to trial today. She unexpectedly settled with Tailhook, an organization of naval aviators, last Friday; but the deal with the hotel fell through. She is seeking an unspecified sum from the Hilton Hotel Corp. for negligence. Jury selection began today in a court case that is expected to last five weeks...
...shooting down two U.S. helicopters over Iraq last April with negligent homicide. Also charged, but with lesser crimes: five people who were aboard the AWACS radar plane that oversaw the action. The incident, one of the military's deadliest friendly fire tragedies, took the lives of 26 people. Lieut. Colonel Randy W. May could serve 26 years in prison if found guilty. No word yet about the fate of a second pilot, whom the Air Force hasn't identified...