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IvrioN HE BATTALION 9A Thursday, September 9, 2004 5ush accused of ying about service V By Matt Kelley THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ■WASHINGTON — Demo- J its pounced on the latest revela- I ns about President Bush’s Air I tional Guard service Wednes- |v, saying newly released re- Irds show Bush shirked his du y and lied about it. ■Bush'sspokes- Kn said the r^.ords back up I: president’s assertion that he I Tilled all of hir Vietnam-era military obliga- tins and served honorably. ■Meanwhile, IT Texas Air N; tional Guard ■eased 128 ... Why did George Bush not report for duty? — Terry McAuliffe Democratic National Committee head Tuesday released more than two dozen pages of records about Bush and his former Texas unit. They showed Bush Hew for 336 hours in military jets after his flight training and ranked in the middle of his class. The latest records do not shed any light on key questions about Bush’s service: whether or where he trained in late 1972 and early 1973, why he skipped a required medical exam and whether he was in vestigated or pun ished for skipping the exam and six months’ worth of training in 1972. Pentagon offi cials said they dis covered the docu- p ges of records on Bush’s I rvice from 1968 to 1973, all 0 which had been previously rt leased by the White House. Tv o Texas officials said in ■’om affidavits that the re- icjrds were all the Texas Guard ■d on Bush’s service. ■With national security and the jwnr on terrorism looming large ;0i voters’ minds, supporters of Bi ;h and Democratic nominee ■hn Kerry' are attacking each ■ndidate’s Vietnam War re- Brds. Republicans have accused Brry. a decorated Vietnam cjmbat veteran, of fabricating I: events which led to his five ledals. Democrats point to gaps I Bush’s stateside Air National Gv ;rd service in 1972 and 1973 Isay Bush shirked his duty. The Defense Department on ments released Tuesday while performing a more comprehen sive search “out of an abundance of caution” in response to a Free dom of Infonnation Act lawsuit by The Associated Press. The newly released records also showed that while Bush says he was in Alabama training w ith another Guard unit in 1972, his home unit in Texas was par ticipating in the air defense of the southern United States by keeping two jet fighters con stantly ready for launch within five minutes’ notice. “When his unit was placed on a 24-hour alert mission to protect our country from sur prise attack, why did George Bush not report for duty?” said Democratic National Commit tee head Terry McAuliffe. Ship awaiting tests on cause of death By Pam Easton I THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I HOUSTON — A 20-mem- Ir crew remained aboard their lip Wednesday awaiting word oil whether they could enter the iHouston Ship Channel after a lew member died, possibly Im the West African virus Blown as Lassa fever, llhe ship “Overseas Marilyn,” Biich left Africa on Aug. 13, was ivfcluntary quarantined in the Gulf jot Mexico while the Centers for Di-ease Control and Prevention |in Atlanta awaited blood and tis- e samples for testing. The man ;d Aug. 31 and his body was [moved from the ship Sunday. Lassa fever is spread by rodent ppings and urine or by con- t with the bodily fluid of an ■fected individual. The virus can :|use hypertension, shock, fever death in severe cases, CDC spokesman Llelwyn Grant said. Grant said even if the man was infected, it would not pose a threat to the general public. 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