U.S. carrier’s mistake kills seven WASHINGTON (AP) - A U.S. aircraft carrior acciden tally blasted a Turkish de stroyer with missilo fire Thursday during a NATO ox orclso, sotting thn vossoi amaze anu Killing ai ioasi soven poopln. Pentagon officials said. Initial reports indicated at least 15 other mem bers of the Turkish crew were injured, but there wore no reports of U.S. Navy casualties, said a Pentagon spokeswoman. Maj. Katherine Ingram. The IJSS Saratoga aircraft carrier accidentally launched two Sea Sparrow missiles during ma neuvers in the eastern Mediterranean and appar ently hit the Turkish destroyer Mauvenet with both missiles, officials said. Ingram said one missile hit the bridge of the Mauvenet, an area of the ship that controls navi gation. A fire broko out but was extinguished in 15 minutes, the spokoswoman said, "It was an accidental launching," Ingram said Crewmen from the Saratoga were dropped onto the stricken ship by helicopter to help with the rescue. A multinational contingent of ships In the region also rushed to the vessel's aid. It was not known how many crew members the Mauvenet was carrying. Ingram said the accident occurred about mid night local time (6 p.m. EDT) in the Aegean Sea. an arm of the Mediterranean between Turkey and Greece. The two U.S. and Turkish ships wore about three miles apart at the time. Both ships were taking part in "Display Deter mination," an annual NATO exercise consisting of vessels from the southern NATO region, the Pentagon said The exorcise usually involves the United States. Turkey. Graeco and Italy. U.S. Navy officials wore dispatched to tho Mauvenet. a 376-foot destroyer, to assess damages it was an accidental launching.1 — Mai Katherine Ingram, Pentagon spokeswoman and Injuries to Turkish allied crew The USS Del knap, flagship for Adm William Lopez, com mander of the U S. Navy's 6th Fleet, was headed for tho scene Thursday night The Mauvenet was formerly the American Hub ert H Smith-class destroyer commissioned In 1944. It was transferred to Turkey In 1971 after having l>een converted for minelaying Tho 1.063-foot Saratoga Is a conventionally powered aircraft carrier commissioned In 1956 It was among tho first class of carriers designed spe cifically to launch jet aircraft. Tho Soa Sparrow missile Is a scaled-down ver sion of the Sparrow, which is used on fighter air craft such us the F-14 and F-15 It is modified for use on board surface ships so that it could lie launched against attacking aircraft and Cruise missiles. In November 1969, the Nuvy ordered a two-day suspension of normal operations after 1(1 acci dents at sea and in tho air within a 10-duv period Ton Navy personnel were killed and at least 71 injured in that series of accidents. Exhaustive safety inspections of Navy craft were conducted (luring the 48-houi "stand down." Wallace chances small MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Former Gov. George C. Wallace remained in critical condition Thursday after sur gery to insert a breathing tube thut doctors hope will ease him off a respirator Wallace, 73. who was hos pitalized last Friday with the potentially deadly blood in fection septicemia, was in in tensive care after surgery, said Vicky Jones, a spokes woman for Jackson Hospital. “He's certainly still in criti cal condition," Jones said Thursday ovnning. "His phy sicians continue to hold his prognosis at about a 20-per cont chance of survival." Soldiers say sex in sand damaged Gulf War morale ARLINGTON. Va (AP) - Two-thirds of American troops who served in coed units dur ing the Gulf War say men und women were having sex, and more than half satd it hurt mo rale, according to a study for a government panel. There was no data to indicate how much sex occurred or how many men and women wore in volved About one-fourth of the 4,442 members of the armed forces interviewed served in the Persian Gulf. Those who served In mixed units were asked whether there was sexual activity between men and women in their unit, und (>4 percent said yos. The other 34 percent said they didn't believe there had boon sexual contact. The highest incidents of re ported sexual activity was in the Army arm Marinas, at 74 porcont and 73 porcont respec tively. Stxty-two porcont of thoso who reported sexual goings-on said it did iittlo or no harm to Iho unit's readiness, while 55 porcont said it hurt moralo. No questions wore asked to oxplain how Iho activity might have hurt moralo. All of the surveyed personnel who woro in Iho war woro askod whether men und women in thoir unit had sex with mem bers of other units. Sixty-one porcont said yes und 34 porcont no. 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