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<text id=89TT0435>
<title>
Feb. 13, 1989: American Notes:Congress
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Feb. 13, 1989 James Baker:The Velvet Hammer
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 41
American Notes
CONGRESS
Dangerous Liaison
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<p> Though tales of libidinous mischief on Capitol Hill are not
exactly rare, the allegations that surfaced last week about the
sexual conduct of an Ohio Congressman came as something of a
shock. In a conversation secretly videotaped by a Columbus
television station last November, Republican Donald Lukens
talked with Anna Coffman, an unemployed widow, in a fast-food
restaurant about his relationship with the woman's daughter,
now 17. "I couldn't understand a man in your position, why
you're messin' around with these teenagers," said Coffman.
Replied Lukens, who turns 58 this week: "I didn't really know
she was a teenager. I do now, of course."
</p>
<p> Coffman's daughter told the station that Lukens had twice
paid her for sex: in 1985, when she was 13, and again last
year. In his videotaped chat with the mother, Lukens seemed to
suggest that he might arrange a Government job for her. Though
the FBI says there is no evidence that the lawmaker was offering
Coffman a bribe in exchange for her silence, the Franklin
County prosecutor is considering whether to file criminal
charges against the Congressman. Lukens, who has been divorced
since 1983, refused to comment.
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