81.   Navy officials and military historians are divided on the question of whether he was entitled to wear the decorations.

82.   Navy officials and U.S. shipbuilders that proposed the provision said if the United States wanted to maintain dominance on the seas, shipbuilders needed more customers than the Navy.

83.   Navy officials believed the problem was caused by abnormal air flow over the front of the wing, known as the leading edge.

84.   Navy officials did not make the charges public until this week.

85.   Navy officials emphasized that Clark, like other commanders below him, had the authority to revise any findings of fault before the investigation was considered complete.

86.   Navy officials have insisted that the civilians on the Greeneville did nothing to contribute to the accident.

87.   Navy officials in Japan first reprimanded the young sailor and then tried to discharge him for homosexual conduct.

88.   Navy officials know that.

89.   Navy officials said Friday that they could not be certain about the condition of the wreckage until calmer seas allowed divers and sonar-mapping teams to resume work.

90.   Navy officials said that work by divers and specialist metal cutters aboard the destroyer was continuing.