"IA - The Michigan Daily - Thursday, December 4, 1997 NATEONILD
Any officials concerned about release of names
Los Angeles Tunes
WASHINGTON - The upcoming court-
martial of the Army's former top enlisted person
is sending shudders of anxiety through the ser-
vice because of a growing possibility it will
force public disclosure of the names of dozens
of others - including generals - who have
been accused of sexual infractions.
In an attempt to prove their client has been
unfairly treated, defense attorneys for former
Sgt. Maj. of the Army Gene McKinney have
compiled a list of six generals who have alleged-
ly escaped punishment for sexual violations.
They have forced the Army to provide names of
some 30 other senior service members - offi-
cers and senior non-commissioned personnel -
who have been formally investigated on such
charges in the past two years.
So far, the judge in the case has ordered the
names and other pretrial information held secret.
But with McKinney's court-martial now one
month away, news organizations and other inter-
ested parties are considering filing court papers
seeking release of the names.
Army officials, already in agony over the 10-
month-old case, fear disclosure of the names
could harm innocent people and renew the
painful debate over whether the brass are treated
more leniently than their subordinates in such
cases.
The issue has distracted Pentagon leader-
ship for the past year. Thedebate began with
sexual misconduct cases at Maryland's
Aberdeen Proving Ground and continued
with the case of former Air Force bomber
pilot Lt. Kelly Flinn, who - accused of
adultery and disobeying orders - eventual-
ly accepted a general discharge rather than
face court-martial. In June, the scandal
reached the top ranks with the disclosure
that Air Force Gen. Joseph Ralston, vice
chairperson of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, once
conducted an adulterous affair.
"You can imagine how disruptive this would
be," one Army official said of disclosing the
names. "And unfair."
McKinney, a 29-year Army veteran whose
former position is one of the most visible and
prestigious in the service, faces 20 counts stem-
ming from accusations by six women who are
current and former members of the military. The
counts include adultery, indecent assault and
obstruction ofjustice.7
McKinney's lawyer, Charles Gittins, has
argued that the Army's decision to take the case
to a court-martial shows a double standard, since
no Army general has been court-martialed at
least since military law was codified in 1951.
On Nov. 6, Gittins gave the court a list of six
Army generals he alleged have broken sexual
misconduct rules without punishment. And last
month, at the court's instruction, Army officials
filed a list of officers and senior enlisted per-
sonnel who have been formally investigated for
alleged sexual misconduct violations in the past
two years.
A source said the list included 10 generals
and about 20 others at about McKinney's rank
or higher who had been investigated sinde
1995. Some on the list had acknowledged
their guilt, others had invoked their right to
make no statements and still others may have
been innocent.
According to this source, the most severe p '
ishment any of the 30 received was a letter
reprimand, and none of them was court-mar-
tialed,
A spokesperson for the Army's Military
District of Washington, which is administering
the trial, declined to comment on the list.
Most military disciplinary proceedings
are conducted without attracting publi
notice, so publication of the list could -be
deeply embarrassing for many of the sol-
diers involved.
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MOSCOW - President Boris
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announcements on Russia's disarm+
ment plans, made on his current stat
visit to Sweden, have once again bewil-
dered the West and exasperated ai*4
trying to persuade the increasingly
eccentric leader to keep to an official
script.
His spokesperson, Sergei
Yastrzhembsky, tactfully down-
played Yeltsin's first startling ge-
ture on Tuesday night - a pronise
to cut Russia's nuclear warheads-by
a third and seek a total world banon
atomic weaponry - by ha1il
explaining that the Russian le
was "tired" after a long day and thet
he had done no more than shed
some light on talks underway with
the United States.- -
But, first thing yesterday morning,
Yeltsin resumed his ways, this time
with a second dramatic promise t the
Swedish parliament to unilaterally -cut
Russia's ground and naval forces by at
least 40 percent from Jan. 1, 1999..
"Listen to this, and evaluate it
exhorted, looking up with a sudden
grin from his text. His audience - conw
fused lawmakers and an anxious
Yastrzhembsky - answered with
silence.
Later, Yastrzhembsky issued -his
gloss on the presidential offer.. The
huge arms cuts Yeltsin had talked 'of
were only the same armed forces' pe-
sonnel cuts that Russia has planned for
years, he said. "The reduction will9
within the limits that have been
announced," he said.
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