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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Vol. 51, no. 30 50$ sunday May 17, 1992 c d 8693 Anavy targets harassment Talhook incident Sparks new class by Chuck v1nch Washington Bureau Washington a the Navy a War on sexual harassment will intensify tuesday when a program to instill a score values in personnel is launched in Pensacola Fla. A new class will be taken by All officers attending naval aviation school until july 1, vice adm. John h. Fetterman jr., Navy chief of education and training said in an interview. After july 1, the program will be Fine tuned and expanded to the entire Navy. The initiative comes on the heels of a scathing Navy inspector general report on incidents of sexual harassment at the Tail Hook associations annual convention at a Las vegas hotel last fall. The association is a private group of present and former aviators and it had enjoyed close ties to the Navy and Marine corps. Secretary of the Navy h. Lawrence Garrett Iii severed All formal ties to the organization in the Wake of the scandal. Garrett and chief of naval operations adm. Frank b. Kelso ii also recently issued a strongly worded message to the Fleet vowing a Zero tolerance of sexual harassment. If we conduct the  Wuyu going to on who Haft to Muff about women or  vice adm John h. Fetterman or. The inspector general a report contained lurid tales of Drunken aviators trying to Paw or disrobe at least 26 women a half of them officers a at the convention. It also criticized alleged participants for a closing ranks to thwart the subsequent investigation. In another recent development two sailors accused of sexual harassment at a Navy photography school in Pensacola will face courts martial and four others will get lesser sanctions a Navy official announced last week. Fetterman said the new training initiative first took shape in a lengthy conversation he had with Kelso shortly alter the Tail Hook incident came to Light. However Fetterman said the Issue of sexual harassment in the Navy had been grating on him for some time. A this has been on my mind for a Long time and i guess what in be been concerned about is what a happening to our country because what a coming into our Navy is a reflection of society a values a Fetterman said. His pitch to Kelso was that Navy personnel encounter Many education a a arteries during their careers from raw recruits to the most senior leaders. These training programs offer Ideal chances to encourage the values of integrity and professionalism that the Navy seeks to Foster. A fall we had to do was put the right package together to educate our people a Fetterman said. The focus of the instruction will involve Case studies of not Only sexual harassment but also racial discrimination violent crime and fraud he said. Classes will be broken into subgroups and each will see Navy on Page 2 Horth sea Sarajevo Relief . Air Force cargo planes on saturday carried 43 tons of food from Rhein main a Germany for besieged people of Sarajevo As part of a United nations humanitarian Aid Effort. Fighting threatens to disrupt delivery of food to Sarajevo aps amps by Luke Britt staff writer a  Effort to bring Relief to the besieged people of Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina began saturday with the delivery of 43 tons of food left Over from the persian Gulf War. Two . C-141 Star lifter cargo planes flew from Rhein main a Germany to Zagreb the capital of Croatia on saturday morning. They delivered hundreds of thousands of military meals ready to eat As the . Contribution to the Relief Effort. The meals came from Rotterdam Netherlands where they were stockpiled during the Gulf War but never needed a Rhein main spokesman said. France Italy Switzerland and Poland have also pledged their support a . Spokesman said. But the probability that the food will reach the people who need it hinges on the Success of delicate negotiations Between sworn enemies. Officials with the . High Council for refugees in Zagreb said they were scheduled to meet saturday with leaders of the factions fighting for control of Sarajevo the capital of the new nation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Council is asking for a Promise of Safe passage to Sarajevo for two convoys of trucks loaded with humanitarian Aid. A perfection is not what we re looking for but Success a said . Worker Kimberly Roberson of California. A but that a going to take cooperation from All sides. So far we Haven to seen much of  but renewed fighting in the City saturday which left at least one Man dead May have scuttled the negotiations. The associated press reported that bosnian officials said there would be no talks among bosnian authorities the serbs and the yugoslav army because of the resurgent violence. On Friday night in new York the . Security Council unanimously passed a Resolution demanding that serb led Federal forces and croatian soldiers withdraw from Bosnia. Sarajevo is the latest City to full prey to the ethnic see food on Page 2 North Korea made plutonium nuclear inspection official says Beijing apr North Korea is building a nuclear reprocessing Plant and has produced plutonium at the site As part of atomic Energy experiments the worlds top nuclear inspection official said saturday. Hans Blix director general of the International atomic Energy Agency said North korean officials told him during a five Day tour of nuclear Sites that the building under construction in Yon Byon is a Laboratory. But he added a if it were in operation and Complete then it would certainly in our terminology be called a reprocessing  Blix stressed that he was unable to verify North koreans claim that it does not have a nuclear weapons program. That will be left up to the team of Iaea experts that soon will go to North Korea for exhaustive investigations he said. Plutonium can be used to make a nuclear weapon and several countries fear that if North Korea can reprocess it on a Large scale it May produce nuclear bombs. North Korea has denied it intends to produce nuclear weapons. It agreed to allow International inspections of its facilities under pressure from foreign governments. The North koreans said that during tests in 1990 the Yon Byon Laboratory produced a a tiny Quantity of plutonium and certainly far from the amount that you need for a weapon a Blix said. He spoke at a news conference in Beijing after he and senior Iaea advisers ended a visit to North Korea. The North koreans said the plutonium already produced at the Laboratory came from damaged fuel rods taken from a 5-megawatt reactor in Yon Byon Blix said. A North korean official confirmed Friday that the Laboratory had produced plutonium but Blix a comments provided the first detailed information of the site that North Korea says is involved Only in nuclear Power research. Blix described the facility As a Large building connected to underground tunnels. The North koreans said the tunnels were built to serve As shelters in Case of attack. Pulitzer prize winning columnist Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune joins the sunday Magazine lineup today sunday z i n e  
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