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<text id=89TT1349>
<title>
May 22, 1989: American Notes:Washington
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
May 22, 1989 Politics, Panama-Style
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 39
American Notes
WASHINGTON
Wright's Wrong Man
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<p> His children were taunted by schoolmates, so they were sent
to stay with friends. He received more than 500 angry telephone
calls, including some death threats. Women members of Congress
demanded his resignation.
</p>
<p> Last week John Mack, 35, gave in and quit as the top
legislative aide to House Speaker Jim Wright. The furor had
stemmed from the Washington Post's curiously timed recounting
of Mack's savage knife and hammer assault on college student
Pamela Small more than 15 years ago. After serving only 27
months in a county jail for the felony, he had been hired as a
$9,000-a-year clerk by Wright, whose daughter was married to
Mack's brother.
</p>
<p> "I wish I could rewrite the past, but unfortunately I
can't," said Mack, probably the most influential staffer on
Capitol Hill. Insisted Speaker Wright, who loses his right-hand
man as he faces a bitter survival struggle over his ethics
problems: "I was willing to give this young man another chance,
and I have never had occasion to regret it."
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</body></article>
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