home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1995
/
TIME Almanac 1995.iso
/
time
/
100592
/
1005994.000
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-03-25
|
2KB
|
50 lines
<text id=92TT2216>
<title>
Oct. 05, 1992: Zero Tolerance?
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Oct. 05, 1992 LYING:Everybody's Doin' It (Honest)
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 19
NATION
Zero Tolerance?
</hdr><body>
<p>A report blasts Navy investigators for bungling the Tailhook
inquiry
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> At a Pentagon briefing on the report, Acting Navy
Secretary Sean O'Keefe announced the early retirement of two
senior officers who had been charged with heading the inquiry
-- Rear Admiral John Gordon, the Navy's judge advocate general,
and Rear Admiral Duvall ("Mac") Williams Jr., commander of the
Naval Investigative Service. Both promptly disputed the report.
Williams and Assistant Navy Secretary Barbara Pope had a
"screaming match" in which Williams compared female Navy pilots
to "go-go dancers, topless dancers or hookers."
</p>
<p> O'Keefe acknowledged that widespread tolerance of
demeaning behavior toward women had created conditions that led
to the scandal. After promising to fire all who fail to comply
with the Navy's new zero-tolerance policy, O'Keefe said, "We
get it." But many junior and senior officers braced for the
release of a follow-up report in December, which could result
in the filing of multiple assault charges.
</p>
</body></article>
</text>