ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Friday, August 2, 1996 TAG: 9608020012
SECTION: BUSINESS PAGE: A7 EDITION: METRO
DATELINE: WASHINGTON
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Peace Corps has settled a sexual harassment suit by a former worker who said his female boss grabbed him and kissed him and vowed to have an affair with him.
The Peace Corps will pay Raymond W. Millikin Jr., 55, of Vienna, Va., $250,000, said Millikin's attorney, Gary Howard Simpson. He said he believes it to be the largest payment by the federal government to a man accusing his female boss of harassment.
Millikin, who had worked for the government for 30 years, resigned from the Peace Corps in mid-July as part of the settlement.
He accused his former boss, then-Inspector General Deborah Hold Kirk, of making numerous sexual advances despite his continued protestations that he was married and was not interested in an affair.
``She was demanding sexual favors, he refused, and as a result of that she was starting to take away his job duties and responsibility,'' Simpson said.
Kirk resigned from the Peace Corps this spring. She was not named as a defendant in the suit.
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