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mines; flares and weapons systems for the helicopters.
For the Air Force: two C-130Bs with spare parts; eight OA-37s
with spare parts and aircraft and helicopter spare parts.
For the Army: vehicles, radios, medical equipment, grenade
launchers with ammunition, machine guns with ammunition; small
arms with ammunition and inflatable boats.
For the Marine Corps: individual troop equipment and inflatable
boats.
For the Director of Administrative Security, which is Colombia's
FBI, small arms, smoke grenades, handcuffs and observation
equipment. Again, DDI has the breakdown.
One other announcement for you. There is a memorandum for
corresponden today announcing the identification of four remains
repatriated from Vietnam. The remains will depart Hickam AFB,
Hawaii tomorrow, on their way to Travis AF CA. With these
identifications, the number of Americans still missing and
unaccounted for in Indo-China is 2,334. The memorandum for
correspondents has additional details, and of course, DDI can
provide you with further background if you need it.
Those are my announcements. I'll take your questions.
Q: (Inaudible) on the sale of aircraft to Korea?
A: No, and I think the latest I've seen is that we hope there
will be decision, or we're told there will be a decision some
time this year. But I don't know precisely when that will be
made.
Q: You hear nothing then?
A: No, I didn't see any characterization of it as to one part of
the year or the other.
Q: Have the Koreans given you any sense as to why they're
delaying, they said they would have it by the end of...
A: No, I don't think there's anything I can say about that.
Q: Do you have a line on what the reason for the failure of the
MX was?
A: No, I'm told that's still under investigation. Let me give
you the Air Force's words. The Air Force has not yet finished
its investigation so it really doesn't have any details.
Q: The Trident?
A: I don't have anything new on that at all. I don't think our
answer has changed since the last answer we gave you Tuesday
which was the same as the one we gave you in August.
Q: Will you take a question. Will they need to add launches to
the program in order to test this fix?
A: Sure, I'll be happy to take that question.
Q: I don't know if you have any information about this, but in
regard to the accident at Fort Sill, are there some type of Army
regulations by which people are not supposed to be so close to
these artillery ranges?
A: I don't know. The base out there has been very forthcoming,
I think, in providing information. There is an investigation
underway. It started last night. There will be an
investigation team from the Army Safety Center at Fort Rucker
arriving today. Obviously, the range is shut down. It's a
subject of great concern to the Army. They're going to
investigate it very thoroughly.
Part of the problem, as you know, is that this round exploded in
the trees. That's one of the reasons the injuries were so
widespread. But it's obviously of great concern to the Army and
they'll be making a very thorough investigation.
Q: Evidently there were also some deaths with mortar fire.
A: Yes, those were at Fort Stewart in Georgia about 9:00 o'clock
this morning. Two soldiers were killed when a 4.2 inch mortar
exploded. The first indications are that it exploded in the
tube. There's no idea yet on what caused the mortar to
explode. There was also an investigation team going there from
the Army Safety Center at Fort Rucker and they will be looking
into that. That's all the information that I have on what
happened at Fort Stewart. Again, that was about 9:00 o'clock
this morning.
Q: Is there a way you can get an answer about Army regulations?
A: I think the best place to start with would be Fort Sill, but
you can also check with DDI. Colonel Monteverde is well
familiar with Fort Sill, having served there, so he's a minor
expert on the subject. You could talk to him.
Q: Can you provide a little bit more information as far as
Minister of Defense Yazov's visit here next week?
A: His schedule is still somewhat up in the air, but let me give
you the best that I have so far. I'm going to go back to some
of the stuff that we've already discussed and then provide you
with additional details.
He will arrive at Andrews on Sunday, October 1st. I don't know
the precise time for you yet. There are quite a few dignitaries
arriving at Andrews on Sunday and it simply becomes a matter of
traffic control right now. Then on Monday, Secretary Cheney
will host a full honors ceremony at the Pentagon River
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