
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 20, 1993                   TAG: 9304200055
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Medium

TAILHOOK REPORT TO URGE INVESTIGATING MORE PEOPLE

The Pentagon, in its final report on the Tailhook sex scandal, will recommend that more than 140 people be referred to the military's legal system for possible disciplinary action, Pentagon officials said Monday.

The report on the event that has haunted the Navy since the fall of 1991 is expected to be released Friday, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Dozens of women, more than half of them Naval officers, say they were pawed and otherwise abused by drunken Navy and Marine Corps fliers at the three-day Tailhook aviators' convention in Las Vegas.

The report will trigger months of additional investigations by Navy and Marine Corps legal officers of allegations that members of the military took part in such incidents or were derelict in their duty for not halting similar conduct that had taken place for years at the annual convention.

No names will be released to the public at first, although they will be later if formal charges are brought.

Some photographs of the incidents may be made available, the officials said. About 1,000 photos were obtained by investigators from aviators who attended the event.

An official called the report "ugly."

"Testicles hanging out, X-rated movies, ladies being shaved, it will be all there," the official said.

The first part of the report is composed of a detailed description of the events at the 1991 convention of the Tailhook Association of naval aviators in Las Vegas.

The second section of the report, which will not be made public, deals with the inspector general's investigations into individual cases, which could number between 140 and 150.

by CNB