Brown Death Claim Sparks Questions

NAACP President Kweisi Mfume has asked the Clinton administration for information about a military pathologist's claim that Commerce Secretary Ronald H. Brown may have been shot in the head, the organization said in a statement. Government investigators conclude that Brown died of injuries he sustained in an April 1996 plane crash in Croatia. Lt. Col. Steve Cogswell, a deputy medical examiner at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, was quoted in reports earlier this month as saying that photographs of Brown's body show a head wound that could have been caused by a gunshot. Cogswell is now the subject of an internal investigation, according to the Air Force.