Air Force Academy scandal holding up nomination of Army secretary

(EXCERPT), by Robert Weller ASSOCIATED PRESS

1:46 p.m. September 4, 2003

DENVER – Air Force Secretary James Roche's nomination as Army
secretary is being held up because of the sexual assault scandal at
the Air Force Academy, a senator's spokesman said Thursday.

The Senate probably will not consider the nomination until the
independent commission looking into the scandal issues its report
Sept. 22, said Dick Wadhams, spokesman for Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo.

Allard has been a Roche supporter, Wadhams said, but does not object
to the delay, which was first reported in the Colorado Springs
Gazette. "It's not far in the future," Wadhams said.

Former Florida congresswoman Tillie Fowler is heading the independent
panel created by Congress to investigate reports of 146 sexual
assaults. T...

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