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Still reeling from the Tailhook sex scandal, the Navy was hit again with sexual-harassment charges. Officials revealed they were looking into the complaints of 16 female students at a naval training facility in San Diego who said they had been verbally harassed and, in some cases, groped by instructors. The Navy, hoping to demonstrate its new sensitivity, said an investigation had begun "immediately...
...even earn dollars for guns with an octopus-like tourism outfit called Gaviota, which runs health spas, marinas and luxury hotels. At hunting preserves formerly reserved for the army, visitors shoot duck in some of Fidel's favorite stalking grounds. Gaviota takes tourists to the outskirts of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and lets them spy on troop movements -- cocktails and binoculars included. TRD Caribe, the newest arm of Gaviota, is the fastest-growing chain of department stores. TRD, appropriately enough, stands for tienda recaudacion en divisas -- literally, "store to rake in the dollars...
With theTailhook scandalbarely off the public radar, the Navy has a new sexual harassment case on its hands. The Naval Training Center in San Diego said yesterday it was investigating allegations from 16 enlisted women. Among the charges: seven instructors demanded sex in exchange for passing grades. In addition, the women say they were victims of verbal harassment and groping during computer training sessions. The allegations cover a period of over a year and a half ending in September. The probe of the instructors -- all of whom served at least six years, "long enough to know better," a spokesman said...
...women's cross-country teams will compete in the biggest meet of their seasons today. They have travelled to New York City to face the seven other Ivy League schools and the U.S. Naval Academy in the Annual Heptagonal Cross Country Championships...
About 30,000 Cubans who tried to reach U.S. shores, but instead wound up detained at the Guantanamo Bay Naval base, got a sliver of hope today. In Miami, a federal judge blocked the U.S. from repatriating them pending a hearing tomorrow, forcing an immigration official to race to a pay phone to stop a plane carrying 23 refugees from taking...