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- <text id=93TT1617>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Indecent Exposure
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 20
- NATION
- Indecent Exposure
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>The Navy takes a heavy rap in the Tailhook report on sexual
- harassment
- </p>
- <p> There were many officers but few gentlemen at the 1991
- Tailhook convention in Las Vegas. A Pentagon report released last
- week found that 83 women and seven men were forcibly groped,
- stripped, bitten on the buttocks or made to drink from the
- phallus of a fake rhinoceros during the three-day, semiofficial
- bacchanal. Navy and Marine aviators lured women down a gauntlet
- of drunken officers who molested them; some walked through the
- Las Vegas Hilton exposing their testicles or ran naked around
- the pool. The report is full of lurid new details about the
- scandal, but it may not be the whole story. Investigators
- believe "several hundred" of the naval officers interviewed
- concealed information and 51 others lied outright. Pentagon
- Deputy Inspector General Derek Vander Schaaf has sent files on
- 140 officers to Navy and Marine Corps commands for possible
- disciplinary action. And 35 other top brass who attended the
- convention, including Acting Secretary of the Navy Admiral Frank
- Kelso, could be punished for failing to prevent the sexual
- assaults.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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