FRIENDLY FIRE TRAGEDY PROMPTS COURT MARTIAL

CBS-TV reports that the Air Force will courtmartial five officers in connection with the shooting down of two U.S. helicopters following the Persian Gulf War. Friendly fire was responsible for the tragedy in northern Iraq in which 11 people died.

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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