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...phone call came for Nancy Kassebaum as soon as the Senator got back to her office last week from a trip home to Kansas. It was a fellow Republican -- Robert Packwood of Oregon. Were the wire-service accounts true? Had she really told the Wichita Eagle that . . . Yes, he was told. Said a source close to Kassebaum: "She felt the time had come" for him to resign...
Kassebaum, the nation's senior female Senator, thus became the first Republican to ask for the resignation of the embattled Packwood, who faces charges of sexual harassment from 26 women. "I believe it will be increasingly difficult, if not impossible, for Senator Packwood to effectively perform the duties of his office," Kassebaum declared. She was only the second Senator, after Robert Byrd, to demand openly that Packwood quit...
Kassebaum's decision followed testimony of another woman Packwood had assumed was in his corner. Last week Cathy Wagner Cormack, his secretary of 24 years, testified that Packwood had altered portions of his diaries, which she transcribed from audiotape to paper. The Senate ethics committee subpoenaed the diaries in October -- a move that Packwood has been fighting in court. Cormack told committee lawyers that something was amiss after Packwood took the tapes from her this fall. "When they were brought back to my possession, after he had taken them," she said, "I just . . . I sensed that there might have been...
Fearing more tampering, Federal District Judge Thomas Jackson last week ordered that Packwood's diaries be brought to him for safekeeping. Packwood's new lawyer, Jacob Stein, acknowledged that his client had made some alterations. But Stein said the changes were made only "in discrete instances." Stein conceded little else. He told Judge Jackson, who will determine the legality of the subpoena by mid-January, that the Senate's order violates Packwood's constitutional protection against unreasonable searches and self-incrimination. Stein complained that the inquiry keeps expanding "like a balloon." Asked he: "Where...
...Packwood Diaries...