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...years, and Washington is eager to calm the tensions. So, for diplomatic reasons, and no doubt feeling genuine moral outrage, Mondale was quick to apologize for the Okinawa rape. Appearing on a Larry King radio special, Clinton said the U.S. "deeply regrets" the incident. "We do not condone any misconduct or any abuse of the Japanese people," he said. "We think that anyone who violates the laws should be treated accordingly...
...night's journey into day would prove metaphorical for Packwood. The Senator arose Thursday morning still thinking he had a chance of facing down the Senate Ethics Committee's unanimous, bipartisan call for his expulsion. He took to the airwaves, decrying the charges against him of sexual and official misconduct and vowing that his decision to fight on was irrevocable. But then certain lights came on. At 12:30 p.m. Packwood slipped into his second-floor hideaway in the Capitol Building to confer with two of his staunchest defenders, Republican Senators Alan Simpson of Wyoming and John McCain of Arizona...
...Civil War--and the 16th in history--to be expelled. The committee's damning recommendation left little doubt of the eventual outcome of such a fight. In unflinching language, it lambasted Packwood for bringing "discredit and dishonor upon the Senate" and detailed three violations of laws and rules: sexual misconduct that involved at least 18 unwelcome advances toward women between 1969 and 1990; improper use of his political office for financial gain; and, most damagingly, obstruction of the panel's inquiry by tampering with portions of his diaries...
Throughout the 33-month investigation, Packwood's unrepentant hostility appalled the Ethics Committee, which is accustomed to deference and some measure of groveling. Instead of quickly coming clean on the sexual-misconduct charges, he essentially denied knowledge of his lewd behavior by blaming alcohol and charging his accusers of lying, a maneuver that served only to bring forward new complainants and to persuade the committee to investigate charges that Packwood was intimidating potential witnesses. Instead of complying with the committee's demand that he surrender his diaries, Packwood first tried to threaten colleagues, warning that his memoirs would expose other...
...teary Bob Packwood told his colleagues, "It is my duty to resign." The Oregon Republican's decision followed a stunning and unanimous vote by the Ethics Committee to recommend his expulsion. The committee issued its final report on the case, which found that Packwood had engaged in sexual misconduct against nearly a score of women, improperly sought a job for his wife from lobbyists and altered pertinent evidence. What ensued was a gripping 24-hour endgame that saw Packwood first declaring his intention to fight on in the full Senate, then slowly realizing he lacked the votes to keep...