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Meeting with all 46 members of the Republican minority in the ornate Old Senate Chamber, the President began by quoting from the same folk ballad that he used in acknowledging defeat at the 1976 Republican Convention: "I am wounded but not slain. I will rest awhile. But I will rise and fight again." Then Reagan uttered six words that Presidents use sparingly at best: "I beg you for your vote." The G.O.P. Senators, awkwardly divided between loyalists and mavericks, at first responded to the President's plaintive appeal with stiff formality. Then one of the rebels, Senator Steven Symms...
...like a cocktail party in Hell, One hundred reporters and one Radcliffe extern had been waiting for half-an-hour in the end of a corridor intersecting President Reagan's route to the old Senate chamber. There, he planned to lobby 13 recalcitrant Republicans who had voted to override his veto of the $87.9 billion highway bill. We hoped he would conclude his mission before lunchtime...
...press corps decided to wait out the President's session. By waylaying aides and Senators who emerged form the chamber, we learned that by the end of an hour, the President, the 13 rebels, Minority Leaders Robert Dole and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth H. Dole remined in Dole's office. A series of false alarms caused the TV technicians to turn on the bright lights from time to time and growl, "get down!" to reporters in front of the cameras, but none of the antagonists emerged...
...vote proceeded, at first with few surprises. Then, as the less certain Senators emerged from arm-twisting sessions, the chamber began to fill with members who uncharacteristically remained in their seats after voting. Even the tourists sensed the vote's importance...
...torture chamber was exposed when another captive, Josephine Rivera, 26, bolted from Heidnik's 1987 Cadillac as it was parked in North Philadelphia. She telephoned the police, claiming she had been held since November. Rivera reported that Heidnik whipped the women with a stick and fed them a mixture of dog food and, it was later learned, minced human flesh. One woman had been electrocuted, the captives said, when Heidnik stood her in the basement earthen pit, used a garden hose to flood it and touched a live wire to her chains. Her body was found in a New Jersey...