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Packwood quits Senate
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Oregon Sen. Bob Packwood announced his resignation yesterday in the wake of a recommendation by the Senate Ethics Committee that he be expelled in connection with allegations of sexual and official misconduct.
"It is my duty to resign," Packwood told a hushed chamber, filled to capacity with his colleagues and aides. "It is the honorable thing to do."
His committee and personal staff sat watching from the gallery. More than half the Senate, including his Oregon colleague, a solemn Mark Hatfield, were in the chamber for the speech.
wife.
The panel probed allegations that Packwood had made unwelcome sexual advances on 17 women over the years, that he tampered with evidence by making changes in his diaries and sought employment from lobbyists for his estranged
Bob Packwood
As word circulated that he would quit his office after a quarter century, Packwood walked onto the Senate floor and began what sounded like a valedictory speech.
His voice quavering at times, relaxed at others, he reminisced about past battles won and lost.
"There have been many successes in these 27 years, some failures, some frustrations," he said.
"Friendships beyond count."
Friendships beyond count. Packwood's colleagues sat somberly in their seats as he spoke. Aides lined the wall at the back of the chamber.
"I think Senator Packwood has made the right decision," said Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. "It's
not easy. It hasn't been easy."
Packwood's resignation would elevate Sen. William Roth of Delaware as chairman of the tax-writing Finance 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 chamber's youngest senator.
Allegations of sexual harassment first surfaced publicly just days after he was narrowly re-elected to a fifth term in November 1992. The charges were particularly jolting given that Packwood had long been viewed as champion of women's issues.
He had considered resigning in 1993 but decided to stay after reports of his deliberations leaked out — and as the Justice Department served a subpoena that increased his legal liability.
Packwood's decision to quit rather than fight an ethics committee call for his expulsion spared the Senate a wrenching debate.
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Algerian Muslim extremists, who have threatened France for supporting the military-backed government in its former colony, are prime suspects in those attacks.
Bomb blasts outside French school
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The blast was the sixth in a series of bombings or attempted bombings in France since late July and the first car bomb in France since 1982.
VILLEURBANE, France — A car bomb exploded in front of a Jewish school in this Lyon suburb yesterday, just before students left the building at the end of the day. Eight people were injured, including three children who suffered smoke inhalation.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for yesterday's blast in Villeurbane, about 270 miles
southeast of Paris. But police said they had detained a man for questioning.
Six people were hospitalized, authorities said.
Isaac Elhadad, Lyon's deputy head rabbi, said the toll could have been much worse but for a faulty school clock, which had delayed the children's exit by two minutes.
The school has about 700 students.
"We can thank God that this attack did not cause total carnage because it happened at exactly the moment school gets out," he said.
The explosion came three days after a bomb was found and defused
The blast destroyed the car, set fire to another car parked nearby and ignited a blaze in an adjacent apartment, officials said.
in Paris. Three bombings in Paris since July have killed seven people, injured more than 100 and prompted heavy security measures throughout the country.
Police have mounted a nationwide effort to tighten security and search for suspects since the first bombing in a Paris regional subway train July 25 that killed seven people.
On Aug. 26, authorities found a bomb planted on a high-speed train track north of Lyon. That bomb, which was made from a gas canister filled with explosives and bolts, failed to detonate.
Investigators said they believe the three bombs in July and August were planted by the Armed Islamic Group, which is seeking to topple the Algerian government and establish an Islamic state.
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