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Thursday, September 9, 2004
5ush accused of
ying about service
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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. He
said secondary transmission of
the virus is rare.
“Casual person-to-person
contact to develop this is very
uncommon,” he said of the vi
rus, which has a six- to 21-day
incubation period and symptoms
include fever, muscle aches,
sore throat, nausea and chest
and abdominal pain. “About 80
percent of human infections are
pretty mild and asymptomatic.”
Crew members aboard the
ship, which arrived at the en
trance to the Houston Ship Chan
nel on Sunday, have been visited
by infectious disease specialists
and will continue to be moni
tored, said Michael Hanson, a
spokesman for New York-based
OSG Shipping Management
Inc., which operates the ship.
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