home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=90TT2900>
- <title>
- Nov. 05, 1990: American Notes:Armed Forces
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Nov. 05, 1990 Reagan Memoirs
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 37
- American Notes
- ARMED FORCES
- Naval Assaults
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Recruiting posters of smiling female sailors in
- blue-and-white uniforms tout the Navy as a great career for
- women. What they don't brag about is the charges that have been
- leveled at the Navy for the way it treats many women. Now a
- report by the Navy's Inspector General has targeted the
- sprawling Orlando Naval Training Center, which includes the
- only boot camp for women, as the site of repeated infractions.
- During the 18-month period ending in June, the report said,
- there were at least six cases of rape of women at Orlando--and no prosecutions. The investigation also unearthed charges
- of sexual assaults and social-fraternization violations.
- </p>
- <p> Navy spokesmen say all the rape cases were dropped either
- for lack of evidence or because the victims recanted. Still,
- the Inspector General criticized the investigation procedures.
- Last week the Navy brass--already embarrassed during the past
- year by allegations of sexual harassment at the Naval Academy
- in Annapolis and of rape aboard two Navy ships--ordered a
- service-wide review.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-
-