European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 12, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Theft Tyvol. 50, no. 182 saturday october 12,1991 authorized unofficial publication for the . Armed forces k Anita Hill left testifies Friday to having been Quot embarrassed and humiliated Quot while Clarence Thomas denies charges or sexual harassment saying Quot enough is accuses Thomas denies Senate panel hears claims of sexual harassment Washington a Anita f. Hill testified in lurid detail Friday of sexual harassment suffered from Clarence Thomas who swore it Wasny to True. A a in a not Given to fantasy a Hill told Senate questioners. Hill said she was neither a militant nor a Martyr and had told her decade old Story of harassment Only because investigators came to her As the Senate considered the confirmation of Thomas to the supreme court. A i can Only Tell you what happened a she said defending her credibility against Republican questions of Why she waited so Long to speak and Why one followed her former Boss Thomas to a second Federal Agency if his words and actions had been so terrible. Thomas went first denying it All. He told the re opened inquiry that not even a seat on the supreme court was Worth the prying he a faced and insisting he would answer questions Only on harassment in the workplace not on any other private matter because a i will not provide the rope for my own but before there were any questions at All he yielded the chair behind the Green draped witness table to the woman whose accusations put his confirmation in jeopardy. Her words and his were flatly contradictory there was no room for suggestion that one or the other had misinterpreted an innocent remark. Thomas testified under oath that a i cannot imagine anything that i said or did to Anita Hill that could have been mistaken for sexual nor Thomas said did he Ever ask her for a Date. She insisted he had a i would say 10 times maybe i done to know 5 to 10 More embarrassing and threatening she said Thomas repeatedly talked about sex even though she objected and when she could walked away from him. She said she told three friends about it at the time in 1981. A i was really upset a she testified. She said the pressure to Date him was embarrassing and the sex talk More so and humiliating As Well. A the two combined really made me feel sort of helpless in a Job situation Quot she said. Questioning her credibility sen. Alan Specter r-pa., brought up a sworn affidavit from John Doggett see Thomas on Page 2 Leo assessment panel ends stay after conducting 1,000 interviews by Luke Britt staff writer Ramstein a Germany a the army a equal Opportunity assessment team left Europe Friday after interviewing More than 1,000 soldiers family members and civilian employees during a week Long investigation into allegations of discrimination in Usa eur. The groups members will not reveal their findings until they file their official reports Friday with Secretary of the army Michael Stone said the teams Pentagon appointed spokesman. A your findings will be reserved for the Secretary of the army a said Ernest e. Garcia a member of the group and a former assistant Secretary of defense for legislative affairs. Each of the six members will file a separate report Garcia said. A the Secretary of the army Felt that we should have an Opportunity to come to our own conclusions about what we experienced and what we saw a Garcia said. The six member team left Ramstein aboard a private Jet just before noon. The group arrived in Germany monday and on tuesday began a tour of 35 v corps Vii corps and 21st theater army area come installations. The group interviewed soldiers family members civilian employees and local National employees said team spokesman it. Col. Jimmy Jacobs. Reporters were Given a Brief Opportunity to speak with three members of the group at the air base before their plane departed the three were selected by Jacobs. In addition to Garcia Myrna Williamson a retired army brigadier general see Leo on Page 2 in sunday s w m a a a m stars. A a 4 and stripes
