CBS Evening News - 1993-08-17
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[0:00] inappropriate.
[0:01] >> It's officer against officer as the lead
[0:04] victim in the Navy tail hook scandal
[0:06] takes her case to court. In Great
[0:08] Britain, a smoker's death triggers a
[0:10] debate over national healthcare and who
[0:13] should get treated first. And danger
[0:16] down below. Tonight, Eye on America
[0:18] investigates ugly surprises that can
[0:21] ruin the all American dream.
[0:25] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:29] with Dan Rather and Connie Chum. Good
[0:33] evening. Conniey's on assignment.
[0:34] Graphic courtroom testimony today in the
[0:36] Navy's tail hook scandal. A female
[0:38] officer described what she called a very
[0:41] frightening sexual assault by a Marine
[0:44] captain. He denies the charge. CBS News
[0:47] Pentagon correspondent Jim Stewart is
[0:49] covering the story.
[0:51] It was Lieutenant Paula Coughlin who
[0:53] blew the whistle on the Navy's runchy
[0:55] tail hook convention and today she faced
[0:57] one of her alleged attackers in court
[0:59] for the first time. Drunken naval and
[1:01] marine aviators grabbed her breast and
[1:03] pulled at her clothing in a Las Vegas
[1:05] hotel hallway. Coughlin testified they
[1:07] were a bunch of animals in the hallway.
[1:09] She said, "I can't believe they would do
[1:11] that to me." Cameras were not permitted
[1:14] in the courtroom, but Coughlin's
[1:15] testimony was virtually identical to
[1:17] what she earlier told CBS in this
[1:19] interview. this man who grabbed me the
[1:21] first time, I confronted him immediately
[1:23] and said, "You know, what do you think
[1:24] you're doing?"
[1:26] And he just smiled and he smiled a big
[1:31] proud smile at me and I was grabbed
[1:34] again from behind by another person.
[1:36] >> The man who first