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| | Fear of Flying |
 | | A new source has emerged with what she says is personal knowledge about why George W. Bush prematurely left his Texas National Guard unit in 1972--because nerves, fear and a possible drinking problem were affecting his ability to pilot his F-102A plane. |
 | | Jan Peter Linke, a veteran Air Force pilot who was flying the same plane, the F-102, for the Florida Air National Guard, was hired by Bush's superiors to replace him in his Texas Air Guard unit. |
 | | Linke, who raised her son on military widow's benefits and worked as an art teacher and arts coordinator in public and Episcopal schools before suffering a stroke, was intensely private about personal matters, according to those who knew her, and didn't often speak about her husband and his tragic death. |
| www.thenation.com /doc/20041011/baker (999 words) |
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