Following pressure from newspaper editors, Mort Walker, who has drawn the "Beetle Bailey" cartoon strip for 37 years, reluctantly agreed to enter the character of General Amos Halftrack, who ogles his buxom civilian secretary, into sensitivity training. "Some editors of major newspapers expressed concern that if we showed any kind of approval for General Halftrack's behavior, it would look like we were condoning it," Walker said of the cartoon, which runs in 1,800 papers in 38 countries. "Some strips were censored—pulled—because editors feared people might be offended." The secretary received the following apology from General Halftrack: "It's just that I grew up with certain words and attitudes I thought were okay. I'm sorry."

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