home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
TIME: Almanac 1990
/
1990 Time Magazine Compact Almanac, The (1991)(Time).iso
/
time
/
073189
/
07318900.024
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1990-09-17
|
1KB
|
23 lines
NATION, Page 21American NotesCONGRESSLimousine Libertine?
Known throughout his five congressional terms chiefly for his
bombast, Democrat Gus Savage of Chicago is in a peck of trouble.
He has been accused by a woman Peace Corps volunteer of engaging
in sexual misconduct.
On a junket to Zaire last March, Savage found himself in the
company of the 28-year-old volunteer, who was assigned to brief
him on Peace Corps activities. She says that during a two-hour tour
of the night spots of Kinshasa, Zaire's capital city, Savage
fondled her in his chauffeur-driven car and asked for sex. "He kept
saying, `That's the way the world works,'" she told the Washington
Post. The woman says she escaped Savage's advances when an embassy
worker intervened. The next day U.S. Ambassador William Harrop
rebuked Savage, and soon afterward the volunteer was sent back to
the U.S. for counseling.
Savage, 63, reacted to the charges by calling the accusations
racist. When a woman reporter approached him for comment, he
growled, "Stay the f--- out of my face!" Now in his face is the
probability of an investigation by the House ethics committee.