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...Hatter Jr., sitting in Los Angeles, wants to know why the Navy's ban on homosexuals is still in place eight months after he declared it unconstitutional. He has instructed Defense Secretary Les Aspin, along with the Secretary of the Navy and the commanding officer of a Bay Area naval air station, to explain themselves in a court hearing this week or be held in contempt...
Everyone knows the Titanic sank because an iceberg cut a huge gash in its side. But everybody's wrong, says a group of naval architects and marine engineers. Extensive sea-bottom photos of the ship show no gash. The real problem was the ship's steel plating, which was inherently brittle, say the experts -- even a small impact could have caused major cracks. The Titanic's sister ships, the Olympic and the Britannic, made from the same steel, are known to have suffered such cracks...
...Peres and Holst flew to the Naval Air Station at Point Mugu, California, to brief Secretary of State Warren Christopher. He was amazed and swiftly telephoned the President, who expressed immediate support. Washington had been aware since the outset that secret talks were taking place, but had little idea of the pace and scope. "We gave them some inkling, but that's all," said a senior Israeli diplomat. The U.S. knew about four secret channels that the Israelis were operating with the P.L.O. and believed Israeli diplomats who said, in the words of a senior U.S. official, that nothing...
...power, big money, big politics will always generate a degree of savagery in Washington. A distraught former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal threw himself to his death in 1949 out a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital; Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, in 1987 attempted suicide over his implication in the Iran-contra scandal. He survived and recovered...
Like so many others before, the boat was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard, and the refugees passed the next two months in detention at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba. Only 25 of the refugees were allowed to apply for political asylum. The rest were shipped back to the docks at Port- au-Prince, given the equivalent of $15 and told to go home, where many were greeted by a rogue police force that reserves special violence for people who are returned against their will...