Word: vietnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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IDENTIFIED. MICHAEL J. BLASSIE, 1st lieutenant shot down over Vietnam, whose remains had been interred in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for 14 years; by the Pentagon, with the aid of DNA testing; in Washington...
DIED. MARION CARL, 83, intrepid World War II flying ace and postwar test pilot; during a robbery of his home; in Roseburg, Ore. One of the Marine Corps' most highly decorated pilots, Carl shot down 16 Japanese planes over Guadalcanal and flew combat missions in Vietnam while in his 50s. He set an air-speed record in 1947, soon eclipsed when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier two months later...
...June 7 CNN story that aired on NewsStand: CNN and TIME, and a companion piece in TIME written by the CNN journalists, which alleged the U.S. military used Sarin nerve gas and killed American defectors in Laos during the Vietnam War, was in error...
...surfer and a hospital corpsman in Vietnam. He is a presidential adviser on germ warfare and a millionaire yachtsman who, in his 82-ft. sloop Sorcerer, won the first transatlantic race he entered. Indeed, Sorcerer is an appropriate name for a boat owned by J. Craig Venter, one of America's most high-profile biologists. For Venter has conjured up an audacious plan that has so shaken the world of science that it was the focus of a congressional hearing last week...
Last week former Green Beret officer John L. Plaster, who was present in Vietnam when the soldiers returned from the mission in Laos, said in an op-ed piece in the New York Times that sarin gas had not been used. He also disputed the allegation made by CNN's sources that the mission's purpose was to kill American defectors. CNN had quoted one officer on the mission saying he had seen and killed two defectors. Questions have subsequently been raised about his credibility. This officer and a sergeant said they were told by their Montagnard mercenaries there were...