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Capitol Hill plans speedy ethics probe of Senator
Packwood no longer denies charges of sexual advances
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said yesterday that an ethics investigation of Republican Sen. Bob Packwood should begin quickly, perhaps before the next Congress convenes.
"He knows he has to answer questions publicly, but he just doesn't feel strong enough to do it now," the *Oregonian* in Portland quoted one of the unnamed Packwood friends as saving.
Packwood, the Oregon senator who won re-election Nov. 3, was entering a clinic for treatment of alcohol-related problems, said two of the senator's friends quoted by yesterday's Oregonian.
And Sen. Warren Rudman, R-NH, a member of the Senate Ethics Committee, also said he wouldn't rule out an investigation before the next Congress meets.
Ten women - former Packwood staff members or lobbists - have accused the four-term senator of uninvited and unwanted sexual advances.
Dole and Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell of
Maine, said they favored swift resolution of the matter.
"My view is the quicker the better," Dole said on ABC's "This Week With David Brinkley." "Let's get it behind us—maybe before the next Congress convenes."
rackwood on Friday requested an ethics probe and said he would seek advice about his alcohol use.
Mitchell said that the allegations against Packwood of sexual harassment were serious and should be taken seriously.
The allegations were reported by The Washington Post after Packwood narrowly defeated Democratic Rep. Les AuCoin to win a fifth term. Before the election, Packwood denied the allegations to the Post. But he has since backed away from those denials and apologized, conceding in two statements that the unwanted advances could have taken place.
Women lawmakers are expected to press Senate leaders in the upcoming Congress to deal with sexual harassment issues on Capitol Hill.
"I think sexual harassment should be rooted out where it occurs," said Sen-elect Carole Moseley Braun, D-III, on Wednesday.
Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, also appearing on "Face the Nation," said that the Senate needed the same sexual harassment rules that applied to the general public.
Abortion activists turn attention toward stalled bill in Congress
The Associated Press
Dawn Johnsen, legal director of the National Abortion Rights Action League in Washington, D.C., said that women's right to choose was still threatened in many states. "We're going to see more obstacles imposed beginning in January—which is why we need the Freedom of Choice Act," she said.
The U.S. Supreme Court in June examined a Pennsylvania abortion law and ruled in Planned Parenthood vs. Casey that states cannot ban most abortions but may restrict them.
Abortion activists are focusing much of their attention on Congress where a Freedom of Choice Act, which was stalled last session, could turn into next year's landmark pro-b abortion-rights law.
Abortion opponents in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Utah are proposing restrictions like Pennsylvania's,
which include a 24-hour waiting period and informed consent, although the law is back in a lower court. Abortion-rights advocates in Illinois may push the state to protect clinics protested by abortion opponents.
Other states also face abortion-related proposals. The Virginia Legislature may be asked to make blocking an abortion clinic a felony on a second offense. It also may consider a parental-consent bill. Petitioners in Wyoming are collecting names for a 1994 ballot measure that would bar abortion, except in cases of rape, incest or danger to the mother's life.
Abortion-rights advocates have worried that conservatives on the Supreme Court were eroding its 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling permitting abortion. Efforts to cement the ruling into law looked hopeless, but President-elect Bill Clinton's abortion-rights platform offers some hope.
Burke Balch, state legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee, said his adversaries were crying wolf.
"It's clearly in the interest of the other side to try to create the sense of imminent peril," Balch said. "That suddenly state legislatures are poised all over the country to pass laws as Draconian as they can make them. It gets their forces invigorated and gets their funding up."
"Obviously, we cannot pass any (state) laws that would directly protect unborn children," he said.
That is why anti-abortion forces say that they are devoted to defeating the Freedom of Choice Act, which they argue goes beyond Roe vs. Wade.
"It really is a federal license to the doctor to do an abortion anytime he wants," said Douglas Johnson, the National Right to Life Committee's chief lobbyist in Congress.
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