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...R.S.V.P. to Tailhook '93 Just...
Washington -- Navy flyers will want to reconsider attending the TAILHOOK ASSOCIATION CONVENTION set to begin Oct. 10 in San Diego. Navy brass sent a memo to active-duty and reserve flyers telling them that after years of cooperation, the Navy has "terminated all support, direct or indirect, for the Tailhook Association." Meanwhile, Navy Secretary John Dalton has quietly summoned to D.C. some two dozen officers who attended Tailhook to give them a chance to explain their conduct before their court cases go forward...
...Another Tailhook Pilot Flies...
...heterocentric litigation, meanwhile, the Navy withdrew all charges against a pilot in one of the 120 sexual-harassment cases stemming from the infamous Tailhook Association convention two years ago. Prosecutors abandoned the case against Lieut. Cole Cowden after determining there wasn't sufficient evidence to go to court. The Navy has now dropped half of the Tailhook cases...
...said he would ask Congress to lift the ban on women serving aboard warships at sea. The change has long been visible on the horizon, but it was hurried along by a Navy eager to do something to smooth the choppy wake left by its official report on Tailhook. As the damaging document was readied for release two weeks ago, Navy brass quietly assured servicewomen at the Pentagon that, as one put it, "something was coming up soon that we would really like...