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By Wayne Harada
Advertiser Entertainment Writer
The USS Greeneville incident Feb. 9 , in which a U.S. submarine hit a Japanese training ship, got a dubious mention in Tuesday night’s episode of the CBS-TV series, "JAG," in which art briefly imitated life.
The episode, titled "Iron Coffin," dealt with the explosion of a Russian submarine that killed 110 men, with the United States, which had a submarine tailing the Russian one, being blamed for the incident.
The episode had been written by head writer Paul Levine before the Greeneville accident, but a line was added — it appeared to viewers to have been dubbed — in which the Russian captain makes note of the collision as he rails against the Navy’s culpability. The episode involved a Russian captain, Alex Volkonov, whose friendship with the American JAG officer, Harm (played by series lead David James Elliott), is tested by the disaster.
"We try to be current," said Josh Lurie, a writer’s assistant at Paramount Television, where "JAG" is produced. Levine was unavailable and Lurie didn’t want to speak for him. But he did say the Greenville incident, in which the Navy sub collided with the Japanese fishing boat Ehime Maru in waters off O‘ahu, provided a fresh take on the plotline — ripped, as they say, right from the headlines.
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