European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 02, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday november 2, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 5 to i i Hook a Mages reach $6.7 million Las vegas a a former Navy lieutenant molested at the 1991 Tail Hook convention has been awarded $6.7million, resolving the first of numerous lawsuits claiming a hotel Chain failed to protect women from Drunken aviators. ,0n monday a jury ordered the la vegas Hilton and its Parent company to pay $5 million in punitive damages to Paula cough Liri who blew the whistle on the debauchery at the meeting of Navy and Marine aviators. The jury in the Federal District court awarded cough in $1.7 million in compensatory damages Friday ruling that Hilton Security guards should have pre vented her from being groped and fond led by a Gauntlet of men. Coughlin settled for an undisclosed amount with Theta look association before the trial. It1 i Hope this ends the she asked for defense Vaid Nancy Stagg one of Coughlin s attorneys. Defense witnesses had testified that Coughlin was drunk and a willing participant in the festivities. -.  a Pentagon report said 83 women were assaulted or molested at the cop mention. About a dozen other lawsuits Are pending in state and Federal court. The Hilton released a statement say ing we believe strongly that the compensatory damage award More than adequately compensated is. Coughlin and that Given the prompt response by the hotel punitive damages serve  financial statements introduced i court monday showed the net Worth of Hilton hotel corp. At $1.089 billion an the Las vegas Hilton at $274 million. Hilton attorney Eugene wait had no comment on the award. I think Justice was served cough Lin said1 Iii her first comments to report ers since the trial began sept. 12. This sends a message that you can t tolerate abusing women even for making money.".  Coughlin has said a crowd of entrapped her in a hallway and shoved their hands inside her Bra and tried to reach up her skirt and pull off her underwear. She has not worked since Leav ing the Navy in june. She was Uncertain about her future to hoping to slip into obscurity she said. I want to paint Iny House. I just want to go  Coughlin took her Story to the National Media in the summer of-1992. Her account and those that followed brought the resignation of Navy Secre tary h. Lawrence Garrett Iii and the Early retirement of adm. Frank a Kelso ii the chief of naval operations. Paula Coughlin right and her Mother Rena leave Federal court after a jury or the Navy and Marine corps pursued dered the Las vegas Hilton and its Parent company to pay $5 million in punitive 140 harassment cases none of which damages in Paula Coughlin s Tail Hook lawsuit. She was awarded $1.7 million in led to a court martial ". Compensatory damages Friday. By Joseph Berger Newyork times West Point . For years the . Mili tary Academy has conducted a half dozen classes a semester on relations Between men and women including Frank discussions of sexual harassment and incidents like the Tail Hook scandal. So both male and female cadets interviewed Mon Day were embarrassed by the announcement that Jev eral football players had groped female cadets at an oct. 20 rally intended to Muster school spirit for game two Days later against the Citadel. The incident a half dozen cadets said should not be compared with the Tail Hook scandal which tarnished the image of the Navy s officers corps. The Academy is dealing with it and the Guys who have done it said Wilton Hockaday a Junior from Virginia. Tail Hook was blatant and they tried to cover  West Point has admitted women for 18 years and 473 women Are among the school s 4,055 students making up 11.6 percent of the enrolment. The Academy is dealing with it and the Guys who have done Ittai Hook was blatant and they tried to cover it up Cadet Wilton Hockaday Kristi Mouw a freshman from South Dakota who had previously served a tour in the army said women Are treated As Well at West Point As in the army. V  that women have been Here 18 years they be done a Good Job integrating the place she said. I be never seen sexual harassment of any  ". West Point has trained officers for the army since1802. Two of the be rocks of that training Are a code of Honor that for example condemns cheating on exams and a philosophy that stresses what the acad 919 Emy Calls consideration of  v the cadets interviewed chose to see the groping incident through the prism of that philosophy. Football madness several said is As intense attest Point As at Many colleges but football players Are treated with no special reverence and Are judge mostly on their talents As officers. When you leave the Gate said Jim Mcdermott senior from Texas you May have been a football player or a radio disk jockey but you la be an officer and that kind of conduct won t be  Mcdermott like Many of those interviewed is a Mem Ber of the Campus Adib club. Cadets spoke contemptuously monday of the offi cers implicated in the Tail Hook scandal and they said they found it difficult to consider what happened at West Point As anything other than an aberration. It was a couple of Guys who weren t thinking of the consequences of their actions said Tony Ren Nie a senior from Michigan. Mouw said "1 guess it was the excitement of the upcoming game. At a spirit rally everybody gets hyped  Cia chief slammed for action in Ames spy Case Washington a Cia director James Woolsey s reprimands of 11 senior managers for their handling of the Aldrich Ames spy Case were seriously inadequate for a disaster of unprecedented proportions a Senate committee said tuesday. In a report on the Cia s Hunt for the soviet mole and Woolsey s response to the scandal the Senate select committee on intelligence also asserted that con Gressional oversight committees were not notified in any meaningful Way of the devastating loss of foreign agents in 1985 and 86 that Ames now admits he caused. Ames who was arrested last february  sentenced in april to life in prison has admitted he sold . National Secu Rity secrets to Moscow for More than eight years starting in 1985. He was a 31 year Veteran of the spy Agency. Sen. Dennis Deconcini d-ariz., chair Man of the intelligence committee said the report paints a picture which will a Amie Asa Shock to most  in a rejoinder the Cia Public affairs of fice tuesday issued a lengthy chronology of Steps Woolsey has taken in response to the Ames Case. It said most of the Striate panel s recommendations for change Are reflected in these Steps which include Mea sures " to strengthen the Cia counterintelligence capabilities. The Senate report in Many ways High lights the same flaws and errors inside the Cia that were noted in a recently declassified report by the Cia inspector general. In a conclusion much stronger than that expressed by the inspector general the 17 member Senate panel said there was Gross negligence both individually and institutionally in creating and perpetuating a environment inside the Cias operations directorate that enabled Ames to go undetected for so Long. The report said those in charge of the Cia during the 1986-91 period before an intense and focused mole Hunt got under Way must ultimately Bear the responsibility for the Lack of an adequate response. The Senate report said the Cia s own managers could Nave caught Ames earlier if they had been paying adequate attention to signs such As apparent alcohol abuse that Ames was unfit for his Job. By the fall of 1986, several months after Ames began working for the Kremlin the Cia was aware that it was suffering a Sud Den and stunning loss of foreign agents that could not be explained by known espionage cases the report said. Within a matter of months virtually its entire stable of soviet agents had been imprisoned or executed the report said. Deconcini and others in Congress have strongly criticized Woolsey for not reacting forcefully enough to the internal Cia weakness exposed by the Ames Case. The report released tuesday Calle Woolsey s disciplinary actions against the 11 senior managers too mild and it said Many professionals within the intelligence Community had expressed the same View. It said the Cia inspector general had recommended that 23 current and former Cia employees be held accountable for the Agency s failure to detect Ames earlier. Woolsey chose to Issue letters of reprimand to 11 employees seven of whom were re tired but no one was fired demoted suspended or reassigned