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Article: Marine orgies reported: sex, lots of liquor and even rape
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 4, 1987
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MOSCOW A hedonistic mood in their quarters and a tolerant
attitude by superiors created a climate of easy sex, lots of liquor
and black-market profiteering for many of the young marines attached
to the U.S. Embassy here, diplomatic personnel said yesterday.
"Marine House," the section where the Leathernecks are
quartered, "could have been `Animal House,' " one Western diplomat
said, in reference to a popular U.S. film about orgiastic college
parties.
At one of the celebrations, a young British woman was raped, one
of the sources said. Afterward, five marines were sent home to face
courts-martial. Questioning of others in the same unit indicated
widespread illicit contacts with Soviet ...