NAVY PILOT FILES LAWSUIT OVER TAILHOOK INCIDENT

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 22, 1993                   TAG: 9301220162
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: LAS VEGAS                                LENGTH: Short
NAVY PILOT FILES LAWSUIT OVER TAILHOOK INCIDENT
The first woman to go public with the Tailhook scandal filed a lawsuit Thursday charging promoters and hosts knew previous gatherings of the Naval aviators had been drunken melees that degraded women.
At least 26 women say they were groped, fondled and sexually accosted during the Tailhook Association's September 1991 convention. Some say they were forced down a gantlet of men lining a hotel hallway.
None of the estimated 1,500 Navy and Marine Corps officers and former officers who attended the gathering has been charged with any crime.
The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court by Navy Lt. Paula Coughlin was the fifth to result from the scandal.
Coughlin accuses the Tailhook Association and the Las Vegas Hilton of negligence and seeks unspecified damages.

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB