
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, October 8, 1993                   TAG: 9310080160
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NORFOLK                                LENGTH: Short

TAILHOOK PROBE CLEARS BLUE ANGELS LEADER

The commander of a unit that had strippers visit its hotel room during the 1991 Tailhook Association meeting was cleared Thursday of any wrongdoing.

No witnesses who testified before a Navy fact-finding panel could say that Cmdr. Robert E. Stumpf, 41, was in the room when a stripper performed a sex act on a junior officer.

The panel recommended last week that Stumpf be cleared.

"All reviews have been completed," Vice Adm. J. Paul Reason, who's handling most Tailhook discipline cases, said Thursday in a statement. "No additional action is directed."

Charles W. Gittins, Stumpf's lawyer in Washington, said Stumpf met Thursday with Adm. Stanley R. Arthur, vice chief of naval operations at the Pentagon. The admiral concluded that Stumpf "was not present in the room when the act took place," Gittins said. - Associated Press

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