The phone call came for Nancy Kassebaum as soon as the Senator got back to her office last week from a trip home to Kansas. It was a fellow Republican -- Robert Packwood of Oregon. Were the wire-service accounts true? Had she really told the Wichita Eagle that . . . Yes, he was told. Said a source close to Kassebaum: "She felt the time had come" for him to resign.
Kassebaum, the nation's senior female Senator, thus became the first Republican to ask for the resignation of the embattled Packwood, who faces charges of sexual harassment from 26 women. "I...
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