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According to partial transcripts and comments by the lawyers in court, Fuhrman describes engaging in police misconduct of the most damning kind: beating suspects bloody, coercion and badgering minorities. Contrary to his sworn testimony last March that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years, Fuhrman's blustering talk on the tapes is laced with that word and contains other terms offensive to African Americans, Hispanics, women and Jews. In a portion of the transcripts obtained by TIME, for instance, he tells Martha Lorrie Diaz, a friend of McKinny's, that women cops are ineffectual "because...
...sexual-misconduct case against Senate Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood became even graver when reports surfaced that one of two recent complaints accused him of kissing a minor in 1983, a 17-year-old who worked in his office. Packwood said he took "strong exception" to the new accusation...
...took 11 days in jail, the threat of a contempt charge and finally a broad grant of immunity for Beverly Heard to testify against Congressman Mel Reynolds at his sexual-misconduct and obstruction-of-justice trial. Once on the stand, Heard took back a previous recantation and testified that the Illinois Democrat began having frequent sex with her when she was 16 and that he often paid her as much as $100 for the encounters. She said the relationship was consensual...
...nearly party-line split, the Senate voted 52 to 48 to back the decision of the Senate Ethics Committee not to hold public hearings in the sexual and official misconduct case of Finance Committee chairman Bob Packwood. Democrat Barbara Boxer, who had pushed for open hearings, called the decision "a miscarriage of justice." At week's end the committee announced that two more complaints of sexual misconduct had surfaced against Packwood and that it would investigate the new charges...
...sent Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wy.), one of Packwood's chief defenders, a letter asking how he managed to obtain the statements by two witnesses in its Packwood investigation that he discussed last Thursday on ABC-TV's "Nightline." (One statement said a woman who accused Packwood of sexual misconduct had herself made advances on him.) Simpson, who has accused Packwood critics of leaking unfavorable material, told the Associated Press today that he was simply circulating the "other side" of the story...