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...harder Senator Bob Packwood struggles to salvage his career, the deeper he sinks into the mire. First, his efforts to contest charges by 10 women of uninvited sexual advances spawned at least 18 new accusers and Senate charges of sexual misconduct. Then his attempt to discredit those charges by producing portions of his personal diaries unwittingly bred suspicions of other misdeeds: political-favor peddling. His campaign to reseal the diaries gave rise to an overwhelming Senate vote to subpoena the writings. Finally, just as Packwood was coming to the conclusion that he would have to resign, he discovered...
...sexual harassment in 1986, did not need stacks of legal documents to convince them that it was time for a fresh look at the issue. The subject has dominated the news over the past two years, from the Tailhook scandal that rocked the Navy to beleaguered Senator Robert Packwood, who is accused of harassing 26 women, to the case of Justice Clarence Thomas, who came close to being kept off the court in 1991 because of Anita Hill's accusations...
...Packwood Saga...
...vote, Senators supported the ethics committee's effort to subpoena 8,400 pages of diaries as part of a sexual-misconduct investigation of Bob Packwood, the Oregon Republican. The five-term Senator refused to hand over the diaries, however, and the battle will now move into the federal courts. Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia savaged Packwood in a speech on the Senate floor and called on him to resign...
...SENATE: No Privacy for Packwood...