ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Tuesday, November 26, 1996 TAG: 9611260121
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
Harassment costs Army $60,000
BALTIMORE - The Army agreed to pay $60,000 to a woman who claimed fellow security guards at the Aberdeen Proving Ground subjected her to crude sexual comments and refused to let her take bathroom breaks, forcing her once to wet herself.
The settlement is unrelated to the recent scandal there in which soldiers have been accused of raping or sexually harassing women recruits.
In another case that surfaced Monday, seven drill instructors at Fort McClellan, Ala., were removed from work with recruits because of sexual misconduct claims made in calls to an Army hot line.
Cecilia Marie Port, 42, a former civilian employee at Aberdeen, said that when she complained in 1993, the Army retaliated by assigning her to a trailer.
The Army agreed with an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission finding of sexual harassment and retaliation against Port. One guard was fired and others, including supervisors, were reprimanded.
- Associated Press
Briefly
* Two new government studies show for the first time that veterans of the 1991 Persian Gulf War are far more likely to suffer from a variety of serious health problems than troops who did not serve in the war. The studies do not resolve the mystery of what is making most of the veterans ill.
* CIA officer Harold Nicholson, charged with spying for Russia, was denied bail Monday in Alexandria, Va. Prosecutors revealed he has a Swiss bank account with $61,000 he did not report on financial disclosure forms.
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