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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:50:10 PST
From:         Jonathan Fisher <jfisher@NETXWEST.COM>
Subject:      packwood
Comments: To: politics@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu

Considering the recent comments by Carl and others defending Sen. Packwood,
I thought that I would post a couple of posts which were posted to another
list (Clinton).  Here is the first one...

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excerpts from the Eugene Register Guard, 12/11/92:

        SPRINGFIELD WOMAN REAFFIRMS STORY

        INCIDENT: 'There's no chance I confused him
        with anyone else'

        Despite Sen. Bob Packwood's denouncement of her story as
an 'outrageous lie,' a Springfield woman said Thursday that she
stands by her allegations that the Oregon Republican fondled her
when she was 13.

        'Basically, I'm standing by my story. . . . There's no
chance I confused him with anyone else,' Tiffany Work said in a
telephone interview.  She called from an undisclosed location
outside Oregon where she has been staying for the past several
days to escape a flood of media inquiries.

        At a news conference Thursday in Washington, D.C.,
Packwood issued a general apology for making uninvited sexual
approachs to female staff members and lobbyists since the 1960s.

        . . . Packwood categorically rejected the more recent
allegatinos by Work, an accountant and mother of four.

        Work, 32, earlier this week became the 16th woman to
accuse Packwood of unwanted sexual advances when she said the
senator 'deliberately fondled' her buttocks when she was working
as a hostess at a campaign party at a Eugene restaurant in 1973.
.. . .

        Work said Thursday that she was asked to work at the
party by a teacher at the Gloria LaVonne agency in Portland,
where she was studying modeling.  . . .

        She declined on Thursday to identify the teacher, who
Work said 'excused his (Packwood's) action as a result of his
drinking.'

        In a letter to REp. Peter DeFazio, D-Eugene, made public
this week, Work also alleged that Packwood made similar advances
to other young women working at the same campaign event.  . . .
Work said she got in touch this week with two of the women.  Both
confirmed her memory of the event but refused to join her in
publicly accusing Packwood, she said.

        'They're single women who are afraid they may lose their
jobs if this comes out,' Work said.

        . . .

        Work, who is director of the Miss Lane County pageant and
hopes to run for Mrs. Oregon next year, said she was overwhelmed
by media attention after going public with the charges.

        'It's been very scary -- suddenly the whole thing seemed
out of control,' she said.  The attention has made life difficult
for her family, Work said.  She said she does not plan to take
any further action against Packwood.

        [note:  earlier stories have reported that she wrote the
        letter to DeFazio, then did not mail it.  her husband,
        thinking it had been mailed, faxed a copy to the
        'hotline' that women's groups have set up in Portland
        for further reports from other women;  that hotline is
        responsible for 5 other women's reports, beyond the 10
        originally reported by the Washington Post.  the group
        in Portland made the letter public.  she subsequently
        said that she reported the incident now so that her
        daughters would not grow up in a world of similar
        behaviors.]

[one more report coming, on critics' reactions to Packwood
apology]

John
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John E. Bonine: jbonine@oregon.uoregon.edu, ejohn@igc.org


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