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...Alaska's landscape, cameras were places in everything from helicopters to kayaks. Thanks to this a bear tears into a salmon as stunned viewers grab their seats for the reassurance that they are in a theatre, not a nightmare. Get off at the Science Park T Stop, or off Ret. 28. Call 723-2500 for more info. Shows at 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 3 p.m., 6 p.m., 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. daily...
...Captain Dale Dye, U.S.M.C. (ret.), senior military adviser on Saving Private Ryan: "The guy could be, should have been, a professional soldier. He has the mind, the motivation, the spirit and the body to make a good officer. He's inquisitive and highly intelligent. Strip away the Hollywood crap and he's like Captain Miller: a common man in uncommon circumstances who rises to uncommon levels...
...Americans fighting there as well as for the sick and wounded in troop hospitals. In Pleiku, where I was assigned, the hospital staff couldn't stop talking about how much they and the patients appreciated Rogers' coming to the highlands of Vietnam. CLARKE M. BRANDT Lieut. Colonel, U.S.A. (ret.) Aurora, Colo...
...story was based on interviews with soldiers and officers who participated in the mission, several of whom said they believed nerve gas had been used on enemy troops attempting a counterattack on the U.S. forces. Those reports were confirmed by several high-level military sources. Admiral Thomas Moorer, U.S.N. (ret.), who was then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked on camera in general terms about the military use of sarin. Before the broadcast, the Pentagon said it could find no evidence to support the story. Defense Secretary William Cohen subsequently announced an investigation of the charges...
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...