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WASHINGTON -- Admiral Frank Kelso, his pension intact, isn't the only naval officer retiring in the wake of the Tailhook scandal. Lieut. Paula Coughlin, the pilot whose charges of sexual assault launched the official investigation, is leaving the service next week, bitter because she feels her complaints were ultimately brushed off. Adding insult to injury, the Navy's personnel bureau had been claiming she owed it nearly $19,000 of a prepaid pilot bonus that she now cannot "earn" because she is leaving four years ahead of schedule. But the Navy, worried about how Kelso's and Coughlin...
...Kelso's Stars...
...urging of top Pentagon officials, the Senate Armed Services Committee recommended 20 to 2 that Admiral Frank Kelso be permitted to retire with his four stars -- and accompanying pension -- intact. This despite his role in the Tailhook scandal, which remains in dispute. The full Senate is expected to agree...
Attorney General Janet Reno has nominated Jamie Gorelick to be her Deputy Attorney General. As the Pentagon's top lawyer, Gorelick has won praise for her managerial skills and deft handling of such volatile issues as the retirement of Tailhook-tainted Admiral Frank Kelso. Her predecessor, Philip Heymann, resigned in January, citing bad "chemistry" with Reno...
...been battered by the investigations into Tailhook and cheating by midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Some naval officers and military experts note that the Navy's recent problems have come under a series of chiefs -- from James Watkins in 1982 to Carlisle Trost in 1986 to Kelso -- who arose from the aloof and secretive submarine fleet. Submarine commanders usually are trained as engineers and are not renowned for their people skills. Presiding over crews of 155 or fewer highly screened men hasn't prepared the Navy's recent leaders to grapple with modern personnel problems. Kelso and other...