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A2 Wednesday September 13, 1995 Rockland Journal-News Jneting JN 09131995 NEWS OF THE DAY Prep school teacher accused of kidnapping Profiled in GQ magazine, educator allegedly tried to lure teens into his car ft i i i Zli Hit 'jm -j. Llv I'Ci-i tVA PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Royal family upset over nude photos LONDON The royal family is not amused by an Italian magazine's photos of Prince Charles putting on his boxers. "There is no justification for intrusive photographs taken of the Prince of Wales whilst on holiday at the private home of friends in France," the news agency Press Association quoted an un- identified royal aide as saying. The pictures, published in Eva Tremila Express, were taken with a telephoto lens and consist of back and side views of the fu-, ture king of England putting on white boxer shorts. INXS singer pleads guilty to assault LONDON INXS singer chael Hutchence pleaded guilty yesterday to punching a photog- rapher outside a hotel where he -had spent the night with Bob Geldofs estranged wife.

The rocker was fined $620 and ordered to pay $2,900 in court costs and other expenses. Hutchence, 35, snapped because of media attention over his relationship with Paula Yates, said his lawyer, Jonathan Laid-law. Hutchence punched photog-, rapher Jim Bennett in the face on March 20 after spending the night with Ms. Yates, the wife of the Irish rocker who founded Live Aid. Hutchence "knows he achieved absolutely nothing by venting his anger," Laidlaw LOTTERIES The Associated Press PHILLIPS ACADEMY: High school students walk on the campus of Phillips Academy in North Andover, yesterday.

English teacher David Cobb was charged with attempted kidnapping this past summer. EXTRA! he walked downtown with a 12-year-old boy. Cobb was charged with three counts of attempted kidnapping. Cobb was released, but police later searched the knapsack he had been carrying. They said it contained 512 pictures, almost all of naked people, including children.

Police said Cobb told them they were "fantasy photos" he had gleaned from magazines and READERS' GUIDE spent more time on them than they had. His colleagues looked to him for inspiration, and the school made him head of the English department for a five-year term in 1990. Andover students rearranged their schedules to take his courses. In a 1994 GQ magazine profile headlined "The Natty Professor," Cobb said he regarded teaching as theater. When he wasn't dressed like Jay Gatsby or some other literary character, Cobb wore designer suits or black turtleneck sweaters.

He and his wife have a grown daughter, a Phillips Academy alumna. The allegations Cobb is free on $100,000 bail pending a Sept. 22 hearing on attempted kidnapping charges. Cobb no longer lives at his Andover home and his lawyer, Erland McLetchie, won't comment beyond saying his client will plead innocent. New Hampshire authorities are not elaborating on the case, but court documents filed to support a search of Cobb's Andover home offer some clues.

Farmington, N.H., police got the case Aug. 21 when a boy and a girl, both 14, told their stepmother they had been approached by a man who told them he worked at a camp for retarded children. The children told police the man, wearing a "Camp KYO" T-shirt, offered them money to help at the camp. The two children refused. The camp doesn't exist.

Police said Cobb, who matched the children's description down to the T-shirt, was stopped by police the next day as JWkknd cfournal-jN'dos Volume 106 No. 120 200 North Route 303 West Nyack, NY, 10994 President, publisher Gary F.Sherlock 694-5203 Executive Editor Caesar Andrews 578-2400 Circulation manager John Czarnecki 578-2310 Advertising director Enedina Vega 578-2320 Production manager Saul Doctor 578-2303 The Rockland Journal-News is published every morning by Gannett Suburban Newspapers, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network Inc. Copyright 1995, Gannett Suburban Newspapers, One Gannett Drive, White Plains, NY 10604. (914) 694-9300. Second class postage paid at West Nyack (USPS 277-860) Postmaster: Send address changes to Rockland Journal-News, 200 North Route 303, West Nyack, NY 10994 km -a0 acCf a dW PATI I THURSDAY, SEPT.

14 TO SATURDAY, SEPT.lt The Associated Press ANDOVER, Mass. The photos in the Phillips Academy year-books show him sitting at his "desk or lecturing in a striped tie. He stands by a motorcycle in one, -strums a guitar in another. Over the years, the hair grows gray, the face lined, but the story is the same: Here is David Cobb, department head, respected colleague, admired mentor, shaper -of character Teacher. Now a new portrait of Cobb is emerging: a mug shot of a man arrested at his Gilford, N.H., summer home Aug.

23 on charges of trying to lure teenagers into his car. Police said COBB he had pictures of naked adults children in his knapsack. As teachers and students returned for the start of classes yesterday at the exclusive prep school, Cobb was not on the school's campus training ground of prominent Americans from Oliver Wendell Holmes to former President Bush for the first time since 1968. Those who knew Cobb, 59, wondered if they could have been working with a stranger for almost three decades. Cobb's profile It wasn't just his BMW motorcycle and cowboy boots, or that he sometimes dressed up like the in books his class was reading.

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Labor Department refused to remove the postcards of naked women from his work space and ignored her complaints that another employee had offended her with jokes about a new vaginal lubricant named after her. Later she was forced to resign, she says, because of her complaints. A 43-year-old warehouse worker says that her employer failed to address her complaints about a co-worker who repeatedly acted in vulgar ways toward her, including kneeling in front of her and mockingly performing oral sex, to the amusement of other workers. To be sure, there have been changes in the American workplace since a rapt country listened to Anita F. Hill detail sexual harassment allegations against her former boss, Clarence Thomas, during the Supreme Court justice's confirmation hearings in 1991.

had been paid to rub lotion on "the pumpkin man" five days before. No charges have been filed in that incident. The school The allegations hit hard at the school, which has developed from its founding during the Revolutionary War, with an endowment of $250 million. Head of School Barbara Lan-dis Chase granted Cobb a leave of absence on Aug. 23, then dismissed him Sept.

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Lawyers who represent management in such cases say that the nature of the misconduct also has changed dramatically over the years. "There's a lot less serious sexual harassment than there was several years ago," said Frank Cronin, a Los Angeles attorney who has handled sexual harassment cases for companies over the last 14 years. Sexual harassment of the "oppressive and obvious sort" has been curtailed greatly, he argues, because the country is more sensitive to the issue. But, at the same time, the Packwood case repeats a powerful warning first sent during the Thomas hearings. Women who make sexual harassment complaints can pay a high emotional price.

And at least in the case of Packwood, it took 19 women to make a convincing case. During the three years the Senate Ethics Committee was pursuing its case, Packwood and his allies attacked his accusers, questioning their morals and character, just as Hill's detractors had. According to the Equal Em Sexual harassment Numbers picked yesterday: New York Daily: 768. WinFour: 1427. Pick 10: 3-6-12-17-26-27-34-37-40-46-50-55-56-61-65-67-69-70-73-78.

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Play 4: 7-3-1-8. Lotto: 3-20-23-27-31-44. CORRECTIONS Norm Rubin was incorrectly identified Sunday on Page D9 in a photo caption regarding the Rockland County Softball Hall of Fame inductions. ana i Tappan Zee girls' soccer goaf-ie Courtney Graham was incorrectly identified on Page D3 of yesterday's editions in a story about a game against Clarkstown South High School. the job ployment Opportunity Commis-; sion, accusers won only 23-percent of cases in 1994, down from 30 percent in 1990.

Some lawyers who represeni companies and men accused of harassing women say that fewer-cases are being won simply because many complaints are unwarranted and are often thinly veiled attempts simply to hold onto a job, improve a career or win a monetary award. But, said Pamela Fayad, a yer who specializes in sexual ha-; rassment cases, "my experience is that women don't come for-; ward and make false claims. experience also is that these are in incredible denial. Theses men and many employers havg; just not learned the lesson that; this conduct is a violation of the law and has to stop." Fayad has represented both-sides, although primarily plairw tiffs, in about 100 sexual ment cases in California over the. last several years.

In none of her' cases has a man been fired from his job. In almost all cases, however, the women quit, were fired or had to leave their positions under the terms of the settlement. Blankenheim, of 9 to 5, said; that the trend holds true across; the country and that, as a result; most women with valid com; plaints still do not come forward. The 9 to 5 organization maj? have the most accurate sense of-the status of sexual harassment in the workplace because of its" nationwide hotline, which re- ceived 75,000 calls last year. Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON A spate of high-profile downfalls of powerful men as a result of sexual harassment charges is sending a loud message across the country that such conduct is not only unacceptable but can be disastrous for a career.

That message, however, may not be getting though. Women workers and those familiar with their experiences say that unwelcome passes, groping and sexually offensive comments are still rampant in the workplace and that the victims are not confronting such behavior. The forced resignation of Sen. Bob Packwood, last week, the firing of the president of the W.R. Grace the resignation last year of a veteran partner at San Francisco-based Baker McKenzie which was found liable for $7 million because of his behavior toward a secretary and the $1 million settlement last month by Dell Laboratories in New York because of its chief ex-ecutive's sexual misconduct stand as clear testaments to the sizable punishment that may await harassers.

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