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WHEN TALES OF DRUNKEN AVIATORS ASSAULTING women at the Tailhook Association convention became public last year, the Navy professed "zero tolerance" for sexual harassment. But in its review of the Navy's handling of the scandal, the Pentagon last week concluded that senior officers who had conducted the inquiry were more concerned about safeguarding the Navy's reputation and protecting officers than naming names or seeking justice...
Ever since the Clarence Thomas hearings last fall, the Republican Party has been struggling to overcome the perception that its regard for women is only a notch or two higher than that of the Navy's Tailhook Association. The hearings galvanized a long-struggling movement to put more women into the House and Senate, and Democrats have rushed to showcase a sizable ballot of women candidates. But the G.O.P. is woefully short on female office seekers, which is one reason why it is calling on Mrs. Bush and Mrs. Quayle to take high- profile convention roles for the first time...
...Just as U.S. Navy officials thought they had swamped the embarrassing Tailhook affair with a wave of new ship announcements and a major reorganization plan, the scandal bobbed right back to the surface. Investigators in San Diego discovered a cache of several rolls of film that showed the manhandling of a 17-year-old girl who was partly disrobed by a corridorful of rowdy Navy and Marine aviators at the 1991 Tailhook Association convention in the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel. The snapshots detail an episode in which the hopelessly inebriated teenager staggers down the hall while drunken officers tear...
Possibly even more embarrassing to the Navy was a videotape record of one of the Tailhook workshops that took place two hours earlier that same day, in which senior Navy brass -- including Chief of Naval Operations Frank Kelso and former Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III -- sat by as Navy officers jeered the idea of women in combat. "By not taking a stand at this moment, these gentlemen created an atmosphere conducive to what happened afterward," said a Navy officer who witnessed the incident...
...abuse scandal that followed 1991's Tailhook convention of Navy and Marine pilots has shot down a Navy Secretary and held up thousands of promotions. Now two top admirals have been hooked -- for other incidents. Vice Admiral Jerry Tuttle, 57, named to head the Navy's air arm, was denied promotion for sexist jokes in a newsletter he writes. Rear Admiral Joseph Prueher, 49, named to take command of the Third Fleet, was gigged for a 1989 episode at Annapolis, where he was the No. 2 man, when male midshipmen handcuffed a female classmate to a urinal...