Word: lewd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...double standard between your case and the "Tailhook incident"? You were discharged because of a verbal statement, yet three years after the Navy Secretary said he would not tolerate lewd behavior or sexual harassment, he attended a convention at which 26 women, many of them officers, were manhandled. ((Last week, under pressure, the Secretary resigned his post...
Conservatives, charging that public broadcasting is too liberal and too lewd, fought to freeze the budget of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. But last week the Senate repelled their efforts, voting 75 to 22 to raise funding from the current level of $825 million to $1.1 billion from 1994 to 1996, with no significant editorial strings attached...
...pilots remained tight-lipped on the subject of after- hours "fun." Garrett's memo fiercely chastised the six men directly involved in the incident, but also targeted those who refused to cooperate with the investigation and the commanding officers present at the Hilton who ) did nothing to end the lewd goings-on. The Navy says it is taking appropriate action against all those involved and started a service-wide program against sexual harassment...
...Francisco Bay Times, which serves the Bay Area's gay and lesbian community, ran a cover showing Hongisto in a doctored photograph grasping a nightstick in a lewd fashion. The headline read, DICK'S COOL NEW TOOL: MARTIAL LAW. The article slammed Hongisto, a sympathetic veteran of the city's Flower Power demonstrations in the 1960s, who three weeks ago ordered massive police sweeps that resulted in more than 1,700 arrests. The show of force enraged liberals and inspired the Bay Times story. Hongisto, appointed by Mayor Frank Jordan only six weeks ago, denies ordering his cops to remove...
...fraternal code of silence every bit as effective as the Mafia's legendary omerta, male pilots stonewalled investigators' questions so effectively that only two suspects were identified. To date, just one Navy official, Rear Admiral Jack Snyder, has been punished. His offense? When a female aide complained of the lewd activities, he responded, "That's what you get when you go to a hotel party with a bunch of drunk aviators...