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UNITED NATIONS--Iran said yesterday that the USS Vincennes did not warn an Iranian airliner before shooting it down, but Vice President George Bush responded in the Security Council that the warship fired in self-defense...
Bush said Iran should not have sent the Airbus into a Persian Gulf battle zone. The Vincennes and the USS Elmer Montgomery had skirmished with Iranian attack boats just before the jetliner entered the area...
Amid conflicting reports about whether Iranrecovered the flight recorder from the downed A300Airbus, the White House said anew that Capt. WillC. Rogers III, commander of the USS Vincennes,took "justifiable defensive actions" to protecthimself against feared attack by an Iranian F-14warplane...
Fitzwater said he would not compare payments inthe Iran airliner case with compensation theUnited States is seeking from Iraq for its May1987 attack on the USS Stark. Thirty-sevenAmerican crewmen were killed...
Also steaming to the scene and expected to arrive today was the salvage ship USS Hoist from the Little Creek Amphibious Base in Norfolk...