European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 24, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Paga 6 the stars and stripes . Sunday july 24,1994af sergeant accepts suit dismissal Washington a an air Force sergeant who said she was the victim of reprisals for complaining of sexual harassment has decided not to Appeal the dismissal of her lawsuit against the military a. Sgt. Zenaida Martinez whose Case Drew the attention of the top echelons of government said in a statement made a available Friday that she is satisfied with the air Force response to her Case a air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall a intervention arid decisive action during the month since 1 met with her has proven to me that the system works a said Martinez who is based at Raf Milden i in the stars and stripes 10 years ago july 24,1984 a the . 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C world War ii 50 years ago today july 241 a 9 a 4 �4 . Marines land on Tinian in the Marianas american planes drop napalm bombs for the first time. In Eastern China nationalist troops surrounded in Fengyang tenaciously hold out against japanese assaults. Bad weather forces a one Day postponement in operation cobra the . Attack designed to rupture the Gern a line West of in Normandy. Society foods capture Lublin in Poland. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. The world almanac of world War ii Bison books corp. 1981 a Hall England. A my career is Back on track and the Congress is taking very serious interest in passing Laws to Reform the system for dealing with sexual harassment a the lawsuit Martinez filed sought administrative rather than monetary Martinez remedies. Her suit. Was dismissed in june by . District judge Harold Green who ruled that the air Force had met the Federal whistle Blower Protection Laws by completing an investigation of the Martinez Case. The air Force found that Martinez had been sexually harassed but found no evidence to support the reprisal Cli arge. A since it now appears that Progress is being made to resolve some of the problems i tried to bring to tight in my lawsuit i prefer to pursue my future with the air Force on a positive note rather than in fight ing old Battles a Mart Inez said. Widnall invited Martinez to meet with her june 13 after reports of the alleged reprisals surfaced. Martinez had testified to the House armed services committee in March that her harassment allegation had provoked. Reprisals at her base in England. That appearance in turn apparently sparked yet another reprisal Martinez charged. After returning to the base following that testimony Martinez missed a military bus to Milde Riha 11 and submitted a $200 cab receipt which the air Force paid. Three months later her superiors informed her she was under criminal invest ligation Oyer the cab fare. Pays off by the new York times Washington Navy Secretary John Dalton settled an old debt to the Agency overseeing the savings and loan. Bailouts by paying the Federal government about $17,900 last week a Navy spokesman said Friday. The spokesman adm. Kendell a Pease jr., said the Agency the Resolution Trust corp., had demanded earlier this year that Dalton pay about $27,000 he owed in connection with a loan he had taken out in the 1980s to buy a condominium in san Antonio that he rented out. Dalton had not repaid the loan and lost the condominium through foreclosure said Pease and a other Clinton administration officials. Pease said Dalton had not realized he owed any Money until he received a notice from the Agency which inherited the debt when the savings and loan failed. The Admiral said that Dalton did not receive the first Etc notice demanding payment because it was sent to a former address in Texas but that he promptly resolved the matter once he received the second notice. Property records in san Antonio show that Dalton a condominium was sold at an auction in 1991 to a unit of Sunbelt a Federal savings a Dallas based savings and loan that had been taken Over by the Etc. Pease and Joel Klein Deputy White House counsel said that because details were not available Friday night they could not explain whether Dalton a debt to the government should have been Dis John Dalton. Paid about $17,900 closed As a liability of his financial disclosure statement before he was confirmed last year As Navy Secretary or in a disclosure statement filed in May. Dalton was travelling in Louisiana and was not available the Admiral said. Dalton a. Financial a disclosure statement filled out in july 1993 in connection with his confirmation did not list any liability to the Etc or to the institution that held the Loam Dalton a dealings with savings and Loans were an Issue in his confirmation hearings but the matter was handled by the Senate armed services committee in closed session. Among the matters kept from the com Mittee s Public. Hearing on the Dalton nomination was an assertion by Federal. Regulators that Dalton had been grossly negligent and had violated various Laws while running another savings and Joan the Seguin savings association in be Guin Texas in the 1980s, a it Doles not appear that there was a connection Between the condominium loan and Seguin Dalton denied in the settlement agreement and again Friday to the associated press that he had acted improperly during his tenure As president and chairman of Seguin. But Seguin a insurance company paid $3.8 million last year to the Federal Deposit insurance corp. To Settle the civil claims against Dalton and other officers of Seguin. R the chairman of the aimed services com Milter sen. Sam Nunn d-ga., Friday defended the committees handling of Dalton a confirmation. In a statement he said that the committee had delayed Dalton shearing for five weeks to gather More information and that the committee a addressed this nomination under the same rules and procedures As we handle All other says Washington it a . Intelligence needs to keep using people a As Well As High tech devices a for spying the chief of some of the most secret Pentagon operations told a congressional audience Friday. No one beats the United states at gathering intelligence by technology but sometimes that is not enough said Gen Wayne a. Downing who is in charge of the special operations come with Headquarters at Macdill fab near Tampa Fla. A. A a you be got to have human beings you be got to have people who can look inside a desk drawer or sit in on a meeting or look through a window and look underneath a desk or a table a he said. Some people think that is wrong Downing went on but he did not sympathize. A a it a a Nasty world out there a a lot of Nasty things going on and there a a lot of places in the world where you can get killed just because you re an american a he said. He was speaking to the defense forum foundation a private organization in an office building of the House of representatives. His listeners were largely from the staff of members of Congress. He said his command has 3,000 troops Depp cd in 62 countries on.258 separate missions. A he himself is dealing at the moment with about five separate crises he added. He discussed the response of the department of defense to terrorism and the emergence of new types of terrorists. In addition to those with a cause and terrorists such As Large scale drug dealers he noted the existence of a new kind since the collapse of the of Jovit Union. He called them Jow Grade criminals hooligans and thugs. 1 a they will kill you just As dead just As fast a he said a perhaps they re not As sophisticated but the Quot end of sult is the same.�?�. A a a he noted that some terrorists Are Good at technology and his troops spend much of their time and Money in a Battle of wits to combat them. He emphasized the importance of his command s work with the forces of Allied countries. A we have a very dose relationship with the British a we always have had a with the French especially for operations a a lie said. A we share in the far East very closely with the South koreans the he also mentioned relations with Singapore and with a series1 of Middle East countries which he did not name
