NBC Nightly News - 1990-05-24

Name: NBC Nightly News - 1990-05-24
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[0:07] >> Sizzler,

[0:09] don't let a world go to waste. Channel

[0:11] 8's on Earth alert.

[0:13] >> The Navy reopens its investigation into

[0:15] the USS Iowa explosion.

[0:19] One year after the Tienna Men Square

[0:21] massacre, President Bush renews China's

[0:23] favored trade status

[0:24] >> ascended for a year. and cleaning up the

[0:27] nation's air. A tough new plan.

[0:32] >> NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokoff.

[0:35] >> Good evening. I'm Jane Paulie sitting in

[0:37] for Tom Brokoff. It was a startling

[0:39] turnaround today by the US Navy. More

[0:42] than a year after the deadly explosion

[0:44] aboard the battleship Iowa and many

[0:46] months after concluding the blast was

[0:48] probably set off intentionally, the Navy

[0:50] is reopening the investigation amid

[0:52] indications it could have been an

[0:54] accident. NBC's Pentagon correspondent

[0:57] Fred Francis.

[0:58] >> Jane, the Navy suspended the firing of

[1:01] all the battleship guns today as it

[1:03] reopened the investigation into the

[1:06] deaths of the 47 sailors during that

[1:08] explosion in April of 1989.

[1:12] The Navy's turnabout comes 9 months

[1:15] after it said a despondent sailor,

[1:17] Gunner's mate Clayton Hartwig, probably

[1:19] caused the tragedy. The Navy has

[1:22] insisted that Hartwig, in a suicide

[1:24] attempt, probably detonated some

[1:26] gunpowder bags used to fire the

[1:29] battleship 16-in guns. The announcement

[1:32] came after a startling test of one such

[1:35] gunpowder bag this morning at the Navy

[1:38] Weapons Laboratory at Dogrren, Virginia.

[1:41] The Navy was evaluating a theory as part

[1:44] of continuing tests to find out if

[1:46] gun