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Seen in that light, the revelations about lewd shenanigans at the Tailhook convention of Navy and Marine aviators last September, which have already cost Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III his job, may be a blessing in disguise. Much as race riots in 1972 led to racial reforms within the Navy, the Tailhook debacle is prompting a serious campaign to stamp out sexual harassment. Acting Navy Secretary Daniel Howard last week ordered a service-wide stand-down so that all personnel can devote a full day to sexual-harassment training. And on Capitol Hill four women recounted tales of sexual...
...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...