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- <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>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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