European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago b a the stars and stripes . A. Tail Hook meeting victim sues organization hotel Las vegas apr the first woman to go Public with the Tail Hook scandal filed a lawsuit thursday charging that promoters and Host a knew previous Gath rings of the naval aviators had been Drunken melees that degraded women the lawsuit filed in . District court by Navy it. Paula Coughlin was the fifth to result from the scandal involving the september 1991 convention sponsored by the Tail Hook association four women who were at the 1990 convention filed similar lawsuits last september. At least 26 women say they were groped fondled and sexually accosted during the convention some say they were forced Down a Gauntlet of men lining a hallway at the Las vegas Hilton. The scandal prompted the resignation of Navy Secretary Al Lawrence Garrett Iii and held up the promotions of some 6,000 Navy and. Marine corps officers. Hut none of the estimated 1,500 officers and former officers who attended the gathering has been charged with a crime. Coughlin accuses the Tail Hook association based in san Diego and the Las vegas Hilton of negligence and seeks unspecified damages. The suit says both Hilton and Tail Hook officials knew that Quot previous conventions degenerated into ram Bunc student s gun goes Honolulu apr a stale legislator apologized thursday to sen. Daniel k. Inouye for disclosing unsubstantiated allegations that Inouye had sexually harassed or assaulted nine women. Quot i wish to say clearly that my spontaneous reaction was an error for without a complainant without specific proof and confirmation there is no Case Quot said stale Kip. Annul la Amaral. Her Public accusations against her fellow Democrat Quot without a Bona fide complainant placed me in the position of committing the same offence of which i charged him that is abuse of the Power of my office Quot she said. Inouye has denied All of the allegations which began surfacing during his re election Campaign last fall. His office had no immediate response to Amaral s apology. The allegations began when Inouye s former hair stylist. Ignore Kwock said in u secretly recorded conversation that Inouye had forced her to have sex with Titus Drunken melees with conduct by the convention attendees that was neither honorable nor becoming officers of the United states . Ton Thomas the association s executive director said he had t seen the lawsuit and could t comment. Hilton spokesman Marc Grossman said previously that hotel officials Quot acted properly and did nothing the convention which had been held at the Hilton since 1972, is no longer Welcome there however. After the scandal was disclosed the hotel cancelled bookings the group had made through 1996. A a Coughlin 31, a helicopter Pilot now stationed in Norfolk va., went Public with her Story last june and it was corroborated by the Nava investigative service. Quot it was the most frightened i be Ever been in my life Quot she said last summer adding that she thought she would be gang raped Coughlin said she was pawed and molested As she was shoved Down a hotel hallway sept. 7, 1991, with one Mian grabbing her breasts and another trying to remove her underpants. After Coughlin went Public former president George Bush invited her to the White House and assured her that a full investigation would be in class kills 1 her apartment in 1975. The tape recording was made Public by a former Campaign worker for stale sen. Hick Reed a Republican who ran against Inouye in the general election. Amaral then said she had received phone Calls from nine women who said they had been sexually harassed or assaulted by Inouye. List she said that Only two had identified themselves and that All of them did not want their names made Public. Amaral said her background As a police officer who specialized in rape cases and later As the states affirmative action officer prompted her a knee Jerk response to the situation and to the Media Quot after she received the Calls accusing Inouye Amaru said Slie would follow her apology with a phone Call and a letter to Inouye. She said she believed her apology should be Public because her accusations were made in Public. Saturday january 23,1993ohio students bet on plot to kill teacher police say from wire reports Lorain Ohio two Junior High school girls plotted to kill their English teacher and other students bet $200 on the outcome police said. The plan was to be carried out wednesday but was foiled by an assistant principal who warned the teacher moments before class was to begin. The youngsters Ages 12 and 13, were pulled out of class and taken into custody. The 12-Ycar-old was supposed to hold the teacher while the 13-year-old stabbed her capt. Cel Rivera said Quot the 12-Yearold said she would finish the Job if the other girl did no to kill her Quot Rivera said. The older girl wagered a schoolmate who. Overheard the threat $20 that she would kill the teacher and soon As Many As 15 students were belting in the outcome police said. A fillet knife was found in the older girls Book bag police said. The 13-Ycar-old told investigators that she wanted to kill the teacher because the teacher who was not identified yelled at her police said. And the younger girl said that she did t like the teacher because she sends me to the office All the asks for castration Houston a a convicted sex offender jailed in Houston has filed a lawsuit asking that he be surgically castrated at Public expense to help prevent him from committing similar acts. Harvey Dale Angel 40, is in the Harris county jail serving a 25-year prison sentence for the 1988 aggravated sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl. Angel was sentenced last year and is awaiting Transfer to the state prison system. The lawsuit filed wednesday asks for a court to declare that Angel has the right to obtain the castration through the health care services provided by county jail trucks stolen new York a a dozen new York City garbage trucks have been stolen in the last five months the sanitation department said thursday. Anne Canty the department s director of Public affairs said that 11 of the departments Fleet of 2,000 trucks costing $110,000 apiece were still missing. But the 12th stolen truck was recovered when sanitation workers stopped a theft in Brooklyn last month she said adding that a suspect was arrested. Police said they guessed the trucks were being stolen either for Sale to private garbage haulers or to be stripped for left on porch Alliance neb a an infant found by a ministers wife on the front porch of her Home was in Good condition thursday at a Western Nebraska Hospital authorities said. Barbara Reed wife of the Rev Samuel Reed found the baby wrapped in a Blanket saturday night with a note saying the baby s name was april and she had been born two Days earlier. The owner of a lick for store across the Street from the Reeds Home said a woman with Black shoulder length hair made a phone Call from his store saturday night. A she covered the mouthpiece and pretended not to listen. But my ears were real big and she said a please take care of my baby a Quot John Korber said. Barbara Reed who received the Call said the woman apparently gave up her baby because the infant s father wanted her to have an abortion. Barbara Reed said the woman was afraid april would be harmed if she took the baby Home. Airline settles suit new York pan am agreed to pay $100,000 to Settle a lawsuit accusing airline Security agents of detaining an iranian born american during the t persian Gulf War because of his ancestry. In agreeing to Settle the airline which is now out of business denied any wrongdoing. Mohammad Ghonoudian said he was removed a Miami to new York Llight in 1991, two Cess into the War and held for three hours by e Uri y agents who interrogated and search ecu him he said he was told he fit the profile of a terrorist. Los Angeles a a powerful handgun taken to school by a teen Ager who feared gangs went off accidentally in a class thursday police said killing one student and wounding another. The .357-Calibcr magnum fired when a 15-year-old reached into his Book bag said police detective Dennis Coyne. The Bullet passed through the Chest of Eli Skogman and killed a 16-Ycar-old boy Demetrius Rice at Fairfax High school. Skogman 17, was in fair condition. 1 the armed youth apologized to about 30 classmates and waited for police teacher Charles Schwartz said. Quot i am sorry. 1 did t mean to do it a students quoted the 15-Ycar-old As saying. The youth was taken to a juvenile Hall. His name Wasny to rely used because of his age although Schwartz initially speculated that poor grades in the English class May have led to the gunfire detectives said the shooting was apparently unintentional. A it was a tragic Accident. It is a result of a gang problem Quot said Coyne saying the 15-Ycur-old apparently feared gang members and took the gun to school for Protection a preliminary investigation found the youths involved had no prior disciplinary emblems Deputy schools superintendent Uhn Zacarlas said. Gangs have plagued the Campus eight Miles West of downtown for yours. Students said the 15-year-old Hud been showing off the a Capoti in class before the shooting. Students talk outside Fairfax High school in los Angeles after a classroom shooting on thursday Inouye gets apology in sex allegations
