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...time to use them. An emergency-support vessel, the Tharos, was permanently anchored nearby to help out in just such a catastrophe. It aimed its fire hoses at the Piper Alpha but was forced to turn away as the explosions continued. Twenty-eight ships, including a seven-unit NATO naval force led by the U.S. destroyer Hayler, quickly assembled to take part in a rescue mission, as did Royal Air Force reconnaissance planes and helicopters...
...knew it. The U.S. rules of engagement are not unreasonable, | considering the situation in the Persian Gulf, and the Aegis system apparently worked as it was supposed to. The tragedy seems to have resulted from a collision of random events (an airliner taking off at the moment a naval battle was beginning, for example) with inflexible technology in a pattern that could conceivably happen again. The Navy immediately began searching for ways to guard against that possibility, including the obvious step of feeding information about scheduled civilian air flights into military computers...
More than 200 subpoenas. As many as 100 defense contracts subject to cancellation. Tens of billions of dollars at stake. All last week, the revelations coming out of the FBI and Naval Investigative Service probe code- named Operation Ill Wind continued to mushroom into the biggest and most important Pentagon scandal ever...
What Lackner did have was even more valuable. In about 1971, while working for Northrop, he had met Stuart Berlin, then and now a Navy civil servant. They formed a close friendship that continued as Berlin rose to become a contracting official at the Naval Air Systems Command -- working on, among other things...
...wide-ranging inquiry began in 1986 with a tip from an unidentified civilian employee of the Navy, and has concentrated heavily on that branch. But the Naval Investigative Service evidently did not warn Lehman (who resigned last year) that the probe was under way. Even Former Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger was kept in the dark and, until last week, so was Carlucci. No one at the White House was informed until shortly before the matter became public...