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tackle sex harassmenand respect for the women’s rights andBy RAY ROWDEN Washington bureauWASHINGTON — Pledging that their response to the Tailhook scandal is not just a “flash-in-the-pan,” the acting secretary of the Navy has created a permanent committee to track women’s issues and combat sexual harassment.In announcing the creation of the permanent committee, Acting Navy Secretary Sean O’Keefe stressed a top-to-bot-tom approach to confront the Navy’s sexual harassment problems.“There’s no question that senior leadership has got to take it on,’’ he said in a press release dated July 23.The Standing Committee on Military and Civilian Women in the Department of the Navy, O’Keefe said, will “deal with this issue on an ongoing basis, not just aone-shot, flash-in-the-pan kind of approach.”The group will then develop recommendations to “remove sexual harassment from the Navy in its entirety,” O’Keefe said in the release.O’Keefe, the former Pentagon budget chief, took the Navy tiller when H. Lawrence Garrett III resigned in the wake of the Tailhook scandal. The Tailhook Association represents carrier-based flyers.Aviators attending September’s Tailhook convention in Las Vegas allegedly assaulted 26 women. Half of the reportedvictims were Navy officers.In addition to enhancing professional opportunities for military and civilian women, the committee will advise O’Keefe, and promoting awareness ofaccomplishments, the release said.Barbara Spyridon Pope, assistant secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, will head the com-mitte. A working group for professional opportunities will be headed by Rear Adm. Marsha F. Evans, from Pope’s office.A working group on the prevention of sexual harassment will be led by Rear Adm. Mariann Stratton, a deputy personnel management with the Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Other committee members include:• Kim McKernan, special assistant toPresident Bush for legislative affairs.• Nancy Risque Rohrback, assistant secretary of labor.• Ambassador Richard Armitagc,State Deparmcnt.• Adm. Stanley R. Arthur, vice ch naval operations.• Gen. John R. Dailey, assistant mandant of the Marine Corps.• Maj. Gen. Charles C. Krulak, M Corps personnel chief.• Rear Adm. Larry R. Marsh, program appraisal chief.• Rear Adm. Louise C. Wilmot, education and training chief.• Master Chief Petty Officer E Bushey, Master Chief of the Navy.• Sgt. Maj. Harold Overstreet, geant Major of the Marine Corps.The Navy invited Jean Appleby son, the head of the Defense Ad' Committee on Women in the Servii observe at the new group’s meetings.
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Sat, Jul 25, 1992

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