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WASHINGTON, D.C.: TIME's Mark Thompson reports that while Army Sergeant Major Gene McKinney has been on the ropes since being charged with sexual misconduct by four lower-ranking female soldiers, today's allegation of sexual misconduct against a female officer completely seals his fate. "He was toast before today's charge, and he's really toast now. Originally, when (Retired Sergeant Major) Brenda Hoster was out there solo, it was at least possible McKinney was innocent. But when charges were finally brought and there were four women, questions (of innocence) were resolved for most people. The fact that...
...McKINNEY, Texas: IBM once was legendary for the large signs it hung in its offices reminding workers: THINK. But these days, thinking can be hazardous in some companies. Take Evan Brown, a former employee of DSC Communications. After the company found out that Brown had dreamed up a way to convert old computer code into an easier-to-use computer language, DSC demanded he turn over the idea, since he had signed an agreement which gives the company ownership of anything he develops while on staff. Brown, who says he developed the idea on his own time, won't budge...
...Army Brigadier General Stephen Xenakis was relieved of the command of all Army medical operations in the Southeast region two weeks ago because of an apparent "improper relationship" with a civilian nurse who was caring for his ill wife. And last week Sergeant Major of the Army Gene McKinney, the top enlisted soldier in the Army, offered to resign to avoid facing prosecution for sexually harassing female colleagues. What looked like equal time to some feminists was regarded as a witch-hunt by old-timers...
SUSPENDED. ARMY SERGEANT MAJOR GENE C. MCKINNEY, 46, the service's highest-ranking enlisted officer; amid allegations that he sexually harassed a female aide. McKinney, a 28-year veteran, has denied any wrongdoing...
Hoster actually called the Army's harassment hotline in November but hung up without giving her name after a frustrating exchange with its untrained staff (such calls have sparked more than 1,100 Army criminal probes since last fall). About that same time, McKinney went to Aberdeen to tell the troops that the Army knows how to fight sexual harassment. "The system we have works," McKinney told them. And then he urged abused Army women to speak up. "If soldiers want to fix the issue," he said, "they must come forth...