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Article: NAVY REVERSES RULING ON 'IOWA' EXPLOSION.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- October 17, 1991
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Byline: Eric Schmitt New York Times
The Navy, revising its findings about the 1989 explosion that killed 47 sailors aboard the battleship Iowa, has concluded after months of tests and analysis that it does not have definitive proof of sabotage, officials said Wednesday.
The new findings, which will be announced today by Adm. Frank B. Kelso II, the chief of naval operations, overturn the Navy's earlier conclusion that the explosion was probably an act of suicidal sabotage by a despondent sailor.
Investigators say a precise explanation for the blast never will be known, but Kelso's conclusions implicitly discredit a separate Navy criminal ...