NATION/WORLD The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, November 12, 1996 - 7 Army continues to probe' charges of sex misconduct WASHINGTON (AP) - Nearly 2,000 calls, hundreds considered worth investigation, have poured into an Army hotline set up after revelation of the sex scandal at a Maryland training center, the Army said yesterday. Meanwhile, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said the Army was "casting its net very wide" to find problems elsewhere. A separate investigation is looking into allegations of sexual misconduct, ranging from rape to fraternization, among supervisors at an Army training base in Missouri, but no charges have been filed, Army sources said. Joint Chiefs Chairman John Shalikashvili, making the rounds of television talk shows in honor of Veterans Day, was asked whether he had any evidence sexual abuse was occurring at other training sites. "We certainly have to assume that it could be happening somewhere else, and that's why the Army is casting its net very wide all across the Army, and certainly all training centers, to get to the bottom of this," the four-star Army general said on CBS' "This Morning." "But right now, I don't think we have all the evidence, or it's very difficult to determine just how big that problem really is," he added. Some 1,999 phone calls had been made to a toll-free hotline set up at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground, near Baltimore. Ed Starnes, an Aberdeen spokesper- son, said calls have been constantly coming in from across the country since the scandal broke last week. "As soon as you are off, another rings," he said yesterday, adding that some com- plaints go back to World War II. Of the calls received between Thursday and 4 p.m. yesterday, 246 were deemed serious enough to be referred to the Army's Criminal Investigative Division for further inquiry. The rest needed no follow-up, officials said. Of the calls pertaining to sexual com- plaints, 56 were Aberdeen-related and 89 stemmed from complaints about other Army facilities. The rest of the calls had to do with administrative requests, complaints concerning nonsexual matters and crank calls. The Army refused to pro- vide details about the complaints that were being referred for investigation. The Army has filed criminal charges against three military trainers and administrative charges against two more - all married - at the Ordnance Center in Aberdeen. The men, four drill instruc- tors and a captain, were suspended along with 15 other instructors, who were placed on paid administrative duty. The men facing charges, ranging from rape to sending improper love fet- ters to trainees. Victims of war AP PHOTO Muslim refugee Fatima Mujic, a native of Koraj, Bosnia, cries as she sits on the outskirts of the village with other Muslim villagers who tried unsuccessfully to return to their homes in the now Serb-held area. uestions surface over Reno's future in Clinton Cabinet a WASHINGTON (AP) - When a reporter asked Janet Reno if she would Cain attorney general, she replied: s,"if the president wanted me to stay." A stock answer, but it still irked White House aides who felt she was exing President Clinton into a corner. :,Shaking up the Cabinet, an almost gainless task so far, is growing more ticklish as Clinton decides whether to reappoint Reno in the" midst of Y hitewater and other investigations. Air Force One was still en route from kansas to Washington, within hours W the election, when word got out that r three Cabinet members were leaving. -Three more soon followed, and the 'news quickly spread about who was in and who was out. <.' 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