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...signals being sent to Bob Packwood are subtle, as befits the Senate, but they have begun to carry a powerful message. At the G.O.P.'s weekly Senators-only lunches, some Republicans now avoid sitting near him. When Packwood's colleagues gather for votes on the Senate floor, they hardly ever include him in their convivial chatter. Rarer still is the consoling sidelong murmur he used to hear so frequently: "How's it going, Bob?" The message is evident to everyone, it seems, but the Senator himself, who believes collegial sympathy may be his salvation. "A number of them are praying...
...would be downright irrational to begin this catalog of the Senate's follies with anyone other than Bob Packwood. The fragile bottom of Packwood's political career has entirely dropped out with new allegations of indiscretions committed against a 17-year-old intern. We know, she looked...
BARBARA BOXER Senator loses battle to air Bob Packwood's laundry in public...
...PACKWOOD OF TROUBLES...
...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...