NATION IN BRIEF : NEW YORK : 3 Cadets Disciplined for Groping Females

Three West Point athletes have been barred from playing football for the rest of the 1994 season for groping female cadets when the women ran past during a pep rally. The three unidentified athletes were also restricted to the U.S. Military Academy grounds at West Point, N.Y., for 90 days, received demerits and were ordered to march for 80 hours, the academy said. Two other players who were also accused of running their hands across the breasts of female cadets on Oct. 20 were cleared because of insufficient evidence. Eighteen of the 51 women cadets involved said their breasts were touched.