Word: shots
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...perhaps the more relevant comparison--at least to explain why Captain Will C. Rogers III shot at the mistakenly-identified aircraft--is the U.S.S. Stark tragedy of just over a year ago. In that incident, Capt. Glenn R. Brindel failed to respond to Iraqi planes attacking his ship, and 37 members of his crew died as a result. After an ensuing investigation, Brindel was forced to retire from the navy...
WASHINGTON--The Iranian airliner shot down by a U.S. Navy missile was transmitting information on two radio channels, including one "identified with F-14s" flown by the Iranian air force, the Pentagon said yesterday...
Meanwhile, in Cyprus, President Ali Khamenei of Iran said yesterday that his country has the right to avenge the victims of the Iran Air jetliner shot down by the U.S. Navy, Tehran Radio reported. Khameni did not say if, how or when Tehran would seek revenge...
...delivered his first major foreign policy speech this month at the Atlantic Council. Georgetown denizens began whispering that she hopes to become the next Ambassador to the United Nations. At the same conference, Andrew Pierre, a Paris-based defense expert, was the first to ask Dukakis a question. "Andrew shot up out of his seat like a Pershing II missile," a colleague knowingly observed. In social Washington, Hostess Jayne Ikard, who has partied with Reaganauts for the past eight years, has been overheard authoritatively telling friends, "I was born in Brookline...
...this is not being mentioned at all. One Kennedy School scholar, after hearing that a reporter had called a colleague to discuss Dukakis, called the reporter to volunteer an interview of his own. The best mention comes with a self-deprecating disclaimer. The best example was a double bank shot in a Business Week cover on American Express Chairman James Robinson. The article quoted Felix Rohatyn, the head of Lazard Freres and among those most commonly mentioned for Treasury Secretary, as touting Republican Robinson for that job in a Dukakis Administration. Score one for Rohatyn. It then quoted Robinson...