Openings delayed in Texas base sex scandal trial

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Military officials say the initial flirtations that Staff Sgt. Luis Walker directed at the women he trained at a Texas Air Force base grew into something more sinister: threats and intimidation that eventually led to rape.

Walker’s court-martial, resulting from a widening sex scandal at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, began Monday with discussion of procedural issues in his case.

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