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Paula Coughlin, a former Navy lieutenant who claimed she was sexually assaulted at a 1991 convention of Navy flyers, settled for an undisclosed amount with the convention's sponsor, the Tailhook Association. Earlier in the week, a Nevada judge had ruled that a Pentagon report on the scandal was not reliable enough to be used as evidence...
...company that has annoyed the Pentagon by offering accurate kits of secret government planes -- said today it's fashioning an alien flying saucer under study by the military. Look for the Area S4 UFO-model flying saucer, named for the highly secret U.S. military base in the mountains of Nevada, where, Testor claims, a dozen interstellar spacecraft may be stashed...
...Fiske has cleared Altman of any criminal wrongdoing, congressional confidence in the former Wall Street investment banker is eroding so fast that he may be forced to resign within days. Four Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee believe privately that Altman has been seriously damaged. Senators Richard Bryan of Nevada and Barbara Boxer of California worry that Altman may have misled them. Nearly all the Senators will question him closely when he appears before the committee on Tuesday...
...surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member said it was "under active consideration," and according to one source, the company may solicit a list of outside candidates as early as this week. At the same...
Learning to Change. Sometimes young people have been so deprived of positive activities that they need coaching when they are about to enter unfamiliar work environments. In Las Vegas, Jocelyn Oats, youth coordinator at the Nevada Partners program, starts sessions by having everyone fold a napkin. "When they are done, they see that everyone folds them differently," she says. "I make them do this so they will understand that their employer may want them to do things differently than they are used...