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...white uniforms tout the Navy as a great career for women. What they don't brag about is the charges that have been leveled at the Navy for the way it treats many women. Now a report by the Navy's Inspector General has targeted the sprawling Orlando Naval Training Center, which includes the only boot camp for women, as the site of repeated infractions. During the 18-month period ending in June, the report said, there were at least six cases of rape of women at Orlando -- and no prosecutions. The investigation also unearthed charges of sexual assaults...
Navy spokesmen say all the rape cases were dropped either for lack of evidence or because the victims recanted. Still, the Inspector General criticized the investigation procedures. Last week the Navy brass -- already embarrassed during the past year by allegations of sexual harassment at the Naval Academy in Annapolis and of rape aboard two Navy ships -- ordered a service-wide review...
...Force chief, General Michael Dugan, for "poor judgment at a sensitive time" in speaking indiscreetly on secret and diplomatically touchy issues relating to the gulf crisis. Dugan was the first member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be dismissed since President Harry Truman in 1949 sacked Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Louis Denfeld and the first military commander to be dismissed since Truman ousted General Douglas MacArthur...
Does Saddam Hussein think he can break the ever tightening blockade being imposed on Iraq by most of the rest of the world? Failing that, might he actually believe he can achieve his goals by going to war against the immensely powerful ground, naval and air forces of the U.S. and its allies? Or might he instead offer to negotiate a compromise solution to the gulf crisis...
...tactic is to play for time: Armitage argued for a 10-year phase-down and continued U.S. access to Clark air base and Subic Bay naval base. In reply, Manila's negotiators called for the return of Clark by late next year, after which the Aquino government says it hopes to turn the facility into a civilian airport...