Article: Marine orgies reported: sex, lots of liquor and even rape

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 ...

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