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Investigative Reporting Finalists
The Goldsmith Prize awards a $25,000 annual prize for reporting that best promotes more effective and ethical conduct of government, the making of public policy, or the practice of politics. The five finalists for 1996 were "The F.A.A., USAir and the ATR Turbo Prop Planes," "Military Secrets," "Prisoners On Payroll," "Honduras," "Who Owns The Law? West Publishing and the Courts," and "Profits From Pain." The stories come from the New York Times, Dayton Daily News, Baltimore Sun, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Sun-Sentinel.
Tags: Goldsmith Prize; Federal Aviation Administration; airplane safety; air traffic control; airplane inspection; airplane accidents; military secrets; sexual assault; military judicial system; Tailhook; military pay; Honduras; CIA; West Publishing; judicial bribes; Supreme Court; judicial ethics; HMOs
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Guard Hit by Series of Rape Cases
A Des Moines Register investigation of the Iowa National Guard revealed that "four female members of the US armed forces have reported being raped by male servicemen in the Des Moines area since April. Three of the women were National Guard members."
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Front and center
They were strangers united by a common dream: to be the first American women to pilot fighter, command warships, to reach the highest echelons of military command. In the process, they would have to scale the battlements of one of the most male-dominated institutions of American society. National Journal examines the role of women in reshaping the U.S. military.
Tags: Pentagon Tailhook Sexism
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No title (id: 13487)
George magazine looks at the state of the U.S. Navy in the wake of the Tailhook scandal and increasing pressures from liberal sides to allow both women and gays in the military. For many in the military, the suicide of Admiral Mike Boorda in May, signaled the military's last cry for help and for the presidential leadership of a man such as Colin Powell.
Tags: Alexander Brothers in arms Politics Republican ticket Election 8 pgs.
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No title (id: 13192)
The New Yorker looks at the life of Admiral Michael Boorda, from his childhood and family life to his suicide in 1995. The article claims that Boorda's suicide was not just the result of Newsweek's questioning of his right to wear certain decorations, but a long-fought battle over the Navy itself that started with the Tailhook scandal. (Septemeber, 1996)
Tags: Boyer Admiral Boorda's war Defense Department Clinton (19 pgs.)
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Her Own Private Tailhook
The New York Times Magazine reports that "after the Gulf War, the Air Force Academy beefed up cadet training with a mock rape 'scenario.' Elizabeth Saum was the first casualty.
Tags: Department of Defense; DOD military training Persian Gulf POW prisoner General Accounting Office GAO SERE Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape; irewar03; war; military
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No title (id: 9465)
U.S. News and World Report looks at Navy justice and how it is administered by the Naval Investigative Service; finds that NIS investigations are often bungled and has led to the guilty going free and the innocent being discharged, Nov. 9, 1992. # NY Cary U.S.S. Iowa Tailhook Homosexual
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No title (id: 9348)
San Diego Union-Tribune reveals how women sailors in the U.S. Navy have been sexually harassed for the last six years at the Tailhook convention; details how the U.S. Department of Defense and the Navy bungled the investigation, October - November 1991 and Oct. 29 - Dec. 27, 1992. * CA Vistica
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