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Attorney General Janet Reno has nominated Jamie Gorelick to be her Deputy Attorney General. As the Pentagon's top lawyer, Gorelick has won praise for her managerial skills and deft handling of such volatile issues as the retirement of Tailhook-tainted Admiral Frank Kelso. Her predecessor, Philip Heymann, resigned in January, citing bad "chemistry" with Reno...
...Tailhook Adieu...
Admiral Frank B. Kelso II, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would retire two months early, in April, in exchange for an official tribute from the Pentagon meant to clear him of wrongdoing in the Tailhook scandal. Earlier this month, a Navy judge dismissed the last three Navy Tailhook cases on the grounds that they had been tainted by Kelso's efforts to conceal his knowledge of the affair...
...Tailhook sexual-assault scandal drove him into early retirement from the Navy, Admiral Frank Kelso last week sought to overhaul his image. The Navy's top officer claimed that during his nearly four years at the helm, he had helped rid the service of its tolerance for abusive attitudes toward women. If anyone treats women as did the drunken, groping aviators at the Tailhook convention 2 1/2 years ago, Kelso blustered at a press conference, "they're not going to be in this man's Navy...
...fact, his legacy is a Navy still straining to accommodate women, homosexuals and members of racial minorities. At the same time, the Navy's reputation has been battered by the investigations into Tailhook and cheating by midshipmen at the Naval Academy in Annapolis. Some naval officers and military experts note that the Navy's recent problems have come under a series of chiefs -- from James Watkins in 1982 to Carlisle Trost in 1986 to Kelso -- who arose from the aloof and secretive submarine fleet. Submarine commanders usually are trained as engineers and are not renowned for their people skills. Presiding...