CBS Evening News - 1990-05-24
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[0:03] Well, imagine what it will be like when
[0:05] Detroit's playing for the championship.
[0:07] >> Great. Thanks for joining us.
[0:09] >> See you at six.
[0:15] [Music]
[0:18] >> The Navy forced to reopen the USS Iowa
[0:20] investigation. Rising criticism over
[0:23] trade breaks for China and cigarette
[0:26] machines as dealers of death to
[0:28] children.
[0:32] This is the CBS Evening News. Dan Rather
[0:34] reporting again tonight from CBS station
[0:36] KHOUTV in Houston. Good evening. The US
[0:39] Navy was forced tonight to reopen the
[0:41] investigation into last year's fatal
[0:43] explosion aboard the USS Iowa. The Navy
[0:46] also ordered an immediate halt to firing
[0:48] the big guns aboard all US battleships.
[0:51] This is the first indication Navy brass
[0:54] may be backing off its insistence that
[0:56] the Iowa blast was deliberate and
[0:58] blaming it on one of the 47 sailors who
[1:01] died in the explosion. From Washington,
[1:02] Eric Inberg has late details. Eric, the
[1:05] Navy was forced to reopen the Iowa
[1:07] investigation by the most convincing
[1:09] evidence imaginable. A test of the
[1:12] explosive powder of the type used on the
[1:14] Iowa had to be halted today when the
[1:17] powder blew up without warning at a test
[1:19] site in Virginia. The Navy also
[1:21] announced that it had ordered no further
[1:23] firing of the 16-in guns on the four US
[1:26] battleships until further notice. 47
[1:30] sailors were killed last year when a
[1:31] horrific explosion tore through one of
[1:33] the Iowa's gun turrets. Among those
[1:35] killed, Clayton Hartwig, a sailor from
[1:37] Ohio. The Navy investigation singled out
[1:40] Hartwig as the likely culprit in the
[1:42] blast, noting that his job on the ship
[1:45] positio