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Fogarty's 70-page report, which must still be reviewed by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman William Crowe and Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, contradicts key elements of what Admiral Crowe told the public about the shootdown shortly after it occurred on July 3. Crowe announced that the Aegis system had tracked the incoming "hostile" aircraft as traveling at 520 m.p.h., flying at 7,500 ft. and descending in a threatening path toward the U.S. warship. But the Aegis data reportedly showed the Airbus flying at about 400 m.p.h. at 12,000 ft. and climbing...
...leaks left important questions unanswered. Among the most critical is whether the Vincennes actually received a signal from the doomed aircraft identifying itself as an F-14 fighter. A series of such coded responses was allegedly a crucial factor in Rogers' decision to fire. Sources say the Fogarty report suggests the signals came from a C-130 transport at the Bandar Abbas airport some 60 miles away. But the C-130 signal differs from that...
DeLillo reconstructs an Oswald and a series of events from the 26 volumes of the Warren Report. Because this is fiction, the outlines of Oswald and of the events are clear. Everything in the novel has a hard factual edge. Everything sounds reported, even what must be pure speculation. When the characters descend into dialect or private associations, DeLillo often lets his narrative voice accompany them, but this is not a relaxation of his distant, researched style. The diction or the sentence structure may change, but the tone never slips; DeLillo remains detached...
...investigators' final report debunking Benveniste's research did not imply that there had been fraud. But it did conclude that the experiments were flawed and that no substantial effort had been made to exclude systematic error, including observer bias. Reported Maddox and his team: "We believe the laboratory has fostered and then cherished a delusion about the interpretation of its data." The report expressed dismay that the salaries of two of Benveniste's colleagues had been paid by a French supplier of homeopathic medicines. The Nature investigators admitted, however, that the same firm had paid their hotel bill...
...special report on Japan' s Nomura, the world' s largest securities firm, which has stunned Wall Street with a big deal to get into the merger game...