ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1995, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, December 29, 1995 TAG: 9512290086
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-6 EDITION: METRO
Tailhook fallout continues
WASHINGTON - In a belated aftermath to the 1991 Tailhook scandal, Navy Secretary John Dalton Thursday denied a Senate-approved promotion to a former commander of the Blue Angels who is now training for a mission to Bosnia.
Though he originally sponsored the promotion, Dalton nixed it after a Senate committee - which also initially approved the promotion - had second thoughts. The committee's change of mind came after discovering the officer's attendance at the aviators' convention where dozens of women were sexually harassed.
Cmdr. Robert E. Stumpf, who led the Blue Angels from 1992 to 1994, went to the convention in Las Vegas but was cleared by a Navy court of inquiry of any misconduct there. He was at Tailhook to receive an award for his fighter squadron's combat performance during the Persian Gulf War.
The secretary's decision outraged Stumpf, a 1974 Naval Academy graduate, and his attorney.
``I am completely chagrined that four years after the Tailhook convention it is still taking down good men who had no part of any of the misconduct involved,'' Stumpf said. He is training in Norfolk, Va., to take over as deputy commander next month of an air wing on the Bosnia-bound carrier USS Eisenhower.
- The Baltimore Sun
Nissan gives NAACP $100,000 donation
NAACP president-designate Kweisi Mfume announced a $100,000 donation from the Nissan Motor Corp. USA Thursday as a ``first-step gesture'' of confidence by private corporations in the new leadership of the troubled civil rights organization.
Mfume said the donation, coupled with a $50,000 Nissan grant earlier this year, will be used ``in the implementation of existing programs and new programs,'' including voter registration and education, recruitment and outreach to minority communities.
- The Washington Post
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