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...task of devising Eisenhower's escape route from Washington fell to naval aide Edward Beach. His assignment was made all the more difficult given the grim prognosis for Washington should it be hit by a Soviet hydrogen bomb. "It would not eliminate the Potomac River," says Beach, "but it would sure raise hell and dig a deep hole where Washington had been. We would have a deep lake there, so shelters in Washington would have been counterproductive. Even if you survived the blast, you'd probably drown." So Beach and others pressed their imaginations for alternate escape plans...
...this much, at least, is certainly true. Clinton and Gore are the baby boomers (two of almost 80 million) taking on the last of the World War II-era leadership cadre -- which has enjoyed an uninterrupted run from that conflict's supreme commander for Europe (Eisenhower) to its youngest naval aviator (Bush). But crowing about the "generational thing" is little more than an obvious way of playing the cards that Clinton dealt himself. Had he chosen Lee Hamilton, as seemed likely for a while, the Clintonians' spin would have pushed regional balance, foreign-policy experience and aged wisdom. The fact...
...center of the new charges is Navy Lieut. Paula Coughlin, one of 26 women sexually molested during last year's Las Vegas Hilton convention of the Tailhook Association, an organization of Navy and Marine pilots. Coughlin told officials at the Naval Investigative Service in November that the agent assigned to her case, Laney Spigener, not only invited her to dinner and a drive in the country but, as she was sorting through photographs of Navy and Marine aviators in an attempt to identify those who had pawed her, also called her "sweetcakes." Spigener was removed from the case and suspended...
...Pentagon brass is now vocally hell-bent for reform. "Perhaps we can't change your attitude," Army Brigadier General Thomas Jones told TIME, "but we can darn well change your conduct." Perhaps not fast enough. The dominant attitude among naval aviators seems to be that it is not possible to be both an officer and a gentleman. "Subjecting these guys to classes in sexual harassment is like telling them not to smoke or drink," explains Charles Moskos, a military sociologist at Northwestern University. "You can't oversocialize them because that might even drive out the best pilots." Some Pentagon officials...
...much to a string of highly publicized incidents. In 1987 Pentagon investigators uncovered "morally repugnant behavior" on a Navy salvage ship cruising the western Pacific, which included the captain's performing oral sex on a prostitute in front of his crew. In 1990 a female midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy resigned after she was handcuffed to a urinal by male midshipmen. There have also been reports of rapes and sexual assaults...