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6A riday Sept 8 1995 The Macon Telegraph aced with expulsion Packwood chooses to resign Continued from page 1A Continued from page 1A Packwood misconduct detailed in documents Continued from page 1A $229 SHONEY EXIT 55A TOM HtLL SR BLVD ECLIPSE image I ISEVERYTH I macon musuBisHi The documents also provide startling detail about dealings between Packwood and five lobbyists and po OPEN TIL 9PM EVERYDAY 1 800 768 8889 757 7000 III Riverside Parkway Macon litical backers the Ethics Committee says he asked to hire his former wife in order to cut his alimony pay ments At one point Packwood wrote in his diary of a 1990 dinner conversation with Ronald Crawford a major fund raiser for the senator at which the lobbyist of fered to put up $7500 a year to help support Pack wife Georgie after their marriage broke up chairman of the inance Committee I can probably double he quoted Crawford as saying Packwood who at the time was a senior minority member of the tax writing panel later told the Ethics Committee the remark was meant as a joke Political intrigue Packwood wrote in his diaries he tried to use one of his staffers to feed misleading information to her hus band a staffer for Democratic Rep Peter Deazio of Oregon Deazio was considering running against Packwood The senator wrote he wanted his staffer to be mole and a spy into the Deazio organization Campaign finance The report contained a passage deleted from the dia ries in which Packwood indicated that another senator with knowledge agreed to direct $100000 from a GOP party committee be used to benefit Sen campaign entry raises questions about the possible viola tion of campaign finance the committee report said when the senator called her to his office and suddenly pinned her against the wall She said he was at her body trying to fondle her breasts and pressed his body against hers closely that I could not move Packwood kissed her seems like your whole life passes in front of your eyes It seemed like an she said Another example was Kerry Whitney a part time el evator operator at the Capitol from whom Packwood demanded a kiss nearly every time he was on the ele vator alone with her She let him come to her house when he asked to thinking she could get him to stop grabbing her But he began kissing her and said he wanted to make love to her She pushed him away and declined his invitations He continued to kiss her in the elevator until she was switched to an elevator he did not use referred the diary alterations to the Justice Department The sexual advances McConnell said not merely stolen kisses as Sen Packwood has claimed This was a habitual pat tern of aggressive blatantly sexual advances mostly directed at mem bers of his own staff or others whose livelihoods were connected in some way to his power and au McConnell dismissed complaint of unfairness saying al advances McConnell said can be no doubt today that the Ethics Committee got Sen Richard Bryan Nev vice chairman of the committee said the action recommended by the panel was like atomic to an swer such criticism can do no more than to expel a member Those days are But Sen John McCain Ariz said the resignation should not be seen as a time to celebrate some new awareness by senators about the relationship between men and women Another close Packwood friend Sen Alan Simpson Wyo said groups who had once sup ported political stands had in the end turned on him was the man who always fought so hard for women and their said Simpson was the man who carried the banner for reproductive resignation would el evate Sen William Roth of Dela ware to chairman of the tax writing inance Committee at a vital time for Republican efforts to implement their balanced budget plan Packwood 62 was elected to the Senate in 1968 and arrived at age 36 as the youngest senator McConnell said resignation was appropriate for Packwood said Sen Richard Bryan ranking Democrat on the ethics panel He called Pack behavior unwanted offensive Also mentioned A staff assistant whom Packwood grabbed pressed close and kissed on the mouth during a chat in her office She pushed him away and said she was happily married She quit her job shortly after that because made her to be around him Gail Byler hostess at a Portland restaurant who was getting a glass of water from a hallway off the closed dining room when of a sudden she felt a hand go from her ankle up the inside of her leg to her She turned quickly saw Packwood and told him to get away from her you know who I he demanded She said she knew and care He said Byler had not heard the end of it felt that he was threatening my she said ormer aide Julie Williamson who said Packwood kissed her then followed her into a back office when she warned him never to do it again As she tried to kick him in the shins stood on my feet grabbed my ponytail and pulled my head back with it so that he could kiss me At the same time his right hand was trying to reach up under my skirt to pull off my panty she said ran into the front office and he stalked out past me stopped at the threshold to the hallway and said not today then Several days later as Wil liamson sat at a bar between her husband and Pack wife Packwood whispered to her tell your husband and quit your job complishments And one female senator Democrat Dianne einstein of California said he be remembered for the accusations that brought his departure She quoted her father as telling hen let a man be known for the last thing he does Let him be known for the best thing he does" Several senators including McConnell suggested earlier that the expulsion recommendation showed senators had learned from the wrenching days of the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court hearings Recalling criticism that senators when a former aide accused Thomas of unwanted sexu victimizer is now claiming the mantle of the Packwood did not mention the al legations in his Senate farewell re counting better times in his long ca reer leave this institution not with malice but with he said his voice periodically breaking luck Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole close to tears himself praised his longtime colleague and declared: believe Senator Packwood has made the right decision not easy It been Other male colleagues also praised Packwood for his Senate ac fourth week While most lawmakers hung around the Capitol with little to do Thursday the leadership scurried behind the scenes to draw a new map that would keep the 11th District majority black Negotiators in both hous es said many state legislators pri vately balked at the idea of hav ing the counties they represent in district McKinney played a high pro file role in working with the Jus tice Department in 1991 92 to force the state to make the 11th District heavily black She then ran for the seat in 1992 and won becoming first black congresswoman During this session McKinney and a handful of other black ac tivists have threatened to defect from the Democratic Party and launch a new third party if the Legislature fails to draw a con gressional map with at least two black districts Meanwhile Sen Charles Walker who irked white leaders Wednesday night by suggesting some of them were racist apolo gized privately to the leadership and made a public plea to end the inflammatory rhetoric move on strateg ize try to work it Walker told the Senate Rep Sanford Bishop whose pool of black voters in the 2nd District would drop from 5223 percent to 4107 percent under the compromise was lukewarm about it he said would like to think I could still win Black Democrats who wanted district redrawn so her re election will be assured brought redistricting negotiations to a halt Wednesday night when it appeared her district would not be majority black under a proposed compromise they want to be served by a black woman their said Rep Hen rietta Canty a black Atlanta Democrat them take her out by running someone against her in the The Legislature has been meeting in special session since Aug 14 to redraw congressional districts to comply with a US Supreme Court ruling The court said Georgia relied too heavily on race in drawing the 11th District before the 1992 elec tions The special session which costs about $25000 a day is in its M7539 Diamond Advantage Plan 60 Month Retail Contract Amount Equal To Monthly Payment Pius Tax Tag Title ee Down Compromise remapping plan is defeated in House Senate 4 I chick I Taking ifth may help uhrman and defense Continued from page 1A 1985 he is heard using the word more than 40 times Although uhrman in no way admitted wrongdoing in invoking his right against self incrimination the public will likely read it that way said Southwestern University law professor Myrna Raeder both innocent and guilty have taken the Raeder said ifth Amendment is a right that all citizens enjoy and yet we as a public are horrified and disgusted when individuals stand by their constitutional Raeder called refusal to testily public relations for the defense Levenson agreed saying the de fense called the former officer to the stand to influence future ju rors should the trial end in a hung jury defense was priming the pump for the second Leven son said press conference afterward verified that Several agencies including the district office have launched investigations of uhr man Asked whether uhrman might be charged with perjury for deny ing he had used the racial slur dis trict attorney spokeswoman Suz anne Childs said: issue will be dealt with at the appropriate Defense attorneys contend the tapes show uhrman is a racist who was capable of planting evi dence to frame Simpson who is ac cused of killing his ex wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman WGXA TV dropping ABC for ox Continued from page 1A True said helps us target the 18 to 34 18 to 49 mar The switch leaves WPGA TV Channel 58 without an affiliate but station owner Lowell Register said he expects to land a network soon preferably ABC of the networks including ox would love to have Channel Register said regardless of how it works out there are only four stations here so wind up with some WMGT Channel 41 is the local NBC affiliate It offers little local programming and has no local news Dan Kendall ox vice president of network distribution said tlie fact that WGXA has a local news operation made it more attractive to ox Even before the Gocom deal sur faced Register had expressed a preference for an ABC affiliation His three radio stations are ABC af filiates and ABC is a major custom er of Register Data Systems which makes digital audio control sys tems Don McGouirk general manager at WMAZ said he heard any indications that the station would change network affiliation hope he said got a long term contract with CBS I an ticipate a WMAZ is to be purchased by the Gannett Co as part of its acquisi tion of Multimedia Inc a $17 bil lion deal that was announced in Ju ly WMAZ is the only CBS affiliate owned by Multimedia Gannett owns three others McGouirk said ugitives nabbed at Putnam motel Continued from page 1A in a room at the motel Lawrence notified Agents Jerry Whidby and Joe Wooten of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation Milledgeville office Ten members of the special response team and other officers from the Georgia State Patrol the Putnam County Sheriffs Depart ment and the Eatonton Police De partment sealed off the area and as sisted in the arrests All told about 25 law enforce ment officers gathered at Law Barbecue on US 441 north before going to the motel and trail er park Bert Davis GBI assistant special agent in charge of the Oc jnulgee Drug orce was the first to knock on tire blue door of room No 6 Initially the Ponders refused to talk or come out until they were warned that tear gas could be used Lawrence said As instructed the brothers crawled into the daylight on their bellies and faced a barrage of weap ons However no weapons were found during search of the fugitives or the hotel room think it all went real good without any shots 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