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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...