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January 28,1982
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Deaths plague boot camp
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United Press International
WASHINGTON — The
Marine Corps has launched an
investigation into the conduct of
a drill instructor just prior to the
drowning of a recruit at a
Marine boot camp, a spokesman
for Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Texas,
said Wednesday.
Spokesman John Jackley said
the investigation stems from the
Aug. 27 death of Randall Christ
ian of Dallas at the Marine Re
cruit Depot at Camp Pendleton
near San Diego.
Don Buford, administrative
assistant to Mattox, said Tues
day night the congressman was
informed by the Pentagon of the
investigation.
He said Mattox sought the
probe when two internal investi
gations concluded Christian’s
death was accidental — despite
what Mattox believes is convinc-
Christian away from the side of
the pool when he was attemp
ting to save himself when he
could no longer make it."
ports of the earlier
invest; I
tions are being reviewed by
Naval Judge Advocate CeL
ing evidence that a drill instruc
tor kicked Christian into a swim
ming pool as the recruit tried to
grasp the side.
Christian, a former lifeguard
who swam on his high school
swim team, was in full combat
gear, and regulations say that
drill instructors are prohibited
from pushing recruits back into
the water during such training
exercises, Buford said.
Buford said about eight re
cruit witnesses have said Sgt.
Rudy Rodriguez “pushed
Mattox is concerned about
evidence that it was not done
only in this case, but was com
mon practice at the facility,
Buford said. He said there have
been live other recruit deaths at
Pendleton in the last year.
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gation, Rodriguez is accused of
preventing another recruit from
reaching the side of the pool ab
out a minute before Christian
died.
He said the Christian case has
“We are seeing a whole;,
pattern in the way the Navyl
vestigates suspicious deatir
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NEW YORK — Roughly one
million people have declared
personal bankruptcy in the two
years since the 1978 Bankruptcy
Act went into effect. Some 40
percent could have paid their
bills. Instead they stuck consum
ers with a $ 1.6 billion annual tab.
“A new class of bankruptcy
debtor has emerged who uses
bankruptcy as a form of finan
cial planning,” said Christine
Edwards, government affairs
representative for Sears
Roebuck Sc Co. “Some run up
credit knowing they are going to
file for bankruptcy.”
Since the act went into effect
Oct. 1, 1979, “creditors are
seeing bankruptcy petitions
from persons who have con
tinued high income, no history
of credit problems, and who
have no decrease in spending,”
Edwards said.
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Bankruptcy Reform, a group of
285 banks and other lenders,
along with the American Retail
Federation and the National Re
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