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DIED. THOMAS H. MOORER, 91, Chief of Naval Operations during the Vietnam War (1967-70) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1970-74); in Bethesda, Md. In a 1998 CNN documentary and an accompanying TIME story, he was quoted as confirming that U.S. forces had used nerve gas in Laos during the Vietnam War. Moorer denied he ever said that, and both CNN and TIME retracted the charges and apologized...
...newcomer to Nashville, Moorer writes songs that have an airy, panoramic sound and enough lonesome twang to fill a steel-guitar convention. She also comes with an impressive calling card: her lovely acoustic ballad A Soft Place to Fall was a breakout hit from the soundtrack to last spring's The Horse Whisperer. Moorer's deft songwriting proves she can live up to the advance billing. Classic mid-tempo heartbreakers like Tell Me Baby and Set You Free are her specialty, coaxing a gorgeously plaintive edge from her voice. Moorer may not have the pipes to belt it out like...
...also agreed to pay Thomas Moorer, a retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a settlement reported to be $100,000. The original program and article stated that Moorer confirmed the use of sarin during Tailwind, which he has denied...
Another source was retired Admiral Thomas Moorer, who at the time was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moorer, now 86, indicated that sarin was "available" and offered what CNN took to be a confirmation that the deadly gas was used. He now says that he never had any direct knowledge that sarin was used, never meant to confirm its use and only heard about it later through "rumors" or "verbal statements...
Several military experts, including CNN's own military consultant, Major General Perry Smith, U.S.A.F. (ret.), have now questioned the accuracy of the story, denying that nerve gas was used. Smith subsequently resigned from his advisory role at CNN to protest the broadcast. Moorer issued a clarification to CNN saying that he had no documentary evidence of the use of gas and that he had not personally authorized its use. His statement said he had learned of the operation later in oral statements that indicated the use of sarin in the mission...