Packwood seated despite petitions
WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen Bob
Back wood. K Ore . whs sworn m
along with his colleagues Tuesdny
despite petitions asking that he
notlie seated
He was given the oath after M.i
jority U*ad«r (#«*orftu | Mili.hfdi and Minority »a*»ul«*r
Hob Dolt* agreed he would lx- seated, along with Sen
Paul Coverdell. R Go The two liuitlors said disputes
surrounding the two Monitor* would !*• resolved later
Miti hull and Dole idled tin* pnsedent of l‘d>:i. when
two senators wen* seated "without prejudiie itiak
ing them senators but m knowlodging that < omplnints
have (wen filed
Miti hell said the i omplainls against Ixitli men will
Ih* refern*d to the Senate Rules and Administration
Committee
"Then* have Ixjen main i untested Senate eli*i tions
where the Senate was asked not to seat an individual.
Mite ht'll mi id in a floor specs ti before senators t «k »k the
onlh in groups of four
Pat-kwood was accompanied l»> Oregon's simior sen
ator Mark Hotfield, a Kcptiblu an
Several petitions have l«*en by Oregon residents
asking that Pai kwood not lie seated They on use turn
of defrauding Oregon voters by taking actions that de
layed — until after the elec tion a Washington Post
article alleging that I’m kwood refmatedlv made unin
vited sexual advam es toward his female employees
and other women
Pai kwood later admitted the conduct generally, but
he refused to disc uss sjmh ific rases or allegations that
he tried to smear the reputations of some of the women
The petitions said Pm kwood at first denied the alle
gations to the Post, and gave the newspaper damaging
information on some of the women — both delaying
tactics that kept the stors unpublished until the elec
tion was over Par kwood narrowly won a fifth term
Hemlock founder may form new group
(AIM Derek iImtip)>r> is at
tempting to regain < <»ntrol of tlx
Niitiou.il Hemlock Society. the
right to tin' organization In- h«-l|n-<{
found 1 - years ago
II In* falls. he says he will .it
ti*m()t to form .1 now organization
to pursue tin* *.ih iel\ '•> goal of pin
sirinn assisted suicide lor tin* b*r
minallv ill
Alleging problems with manage
iiuml stvle and staff morale.
Humphry Inis asked tin* SIX n*t\ s
board pn*sirli‘nl ami executive di
riH tor to sti*[i dow n
II they refuse to do so at tin*
board's l-ebruary in net mg.
Ilumplm plans to i ontnct board
members and chapter leaders
around the country. asking if they
would support bis effort to form .1
new organization
"The 1 orponite strtn tore is disin
tegrating." Humphry said
Humphry. t>2. retired as execu
‘The corporate
structure is
disintegrating. ’
Derek Humphry
National Hemloi * Si •* nfty
live (lintelor i>1 111ii Kugene Imsed
mh if!v in May after months o( tor
btilt’til confrontations with several
hoard members. including pr«*si
dent Sidney Rosoff
Rosoff. a New York attorney,
strongly dispuled Humphry s < bur
in teriwition ol the organization.
'I'm in this niovenient bei miw I
think it is the right movement."
Kosofl said What we have here is
an effort by Derek to denigrate
IlemliM k. which he is doing nice
lv
Humphry and others < ounter
(hat dot isioils to eliminate some
■ hooter coordinator positions
around tin* country. along with the
suspension earlier this year of all
advertising efforts. < mild kill the
organization within six months un
less thin an1 reversed
"These are detent. waU-inten
tinned people." said Mutnphrv. re
ferring to Kosoff and |ofin
I’ridonoff. the exe< utive director
hired in August to replace
Humphry Hut Uumphrv said lie
feels he must step in
Uumphrv < ites (hi lining dona
lions and poor staff morale as evi
dent *’ of problems at Hemlot k
IleiilliK k Sim ioty treasurer Jean
(dllett said revenues have been
sluggish She said they have been
slowed in part f>\ a lack of adver
tising. which forted the sim tety to
tap its investment at t mint an aver
age of $28,000 per month for the
past six months.
Boy needs kidney
of imprisoned dad
ASHLAND (AP) — Brian Tucker tan depend
on his father to donate a kidney so he can be
freed from a life tied to a dialysis machine.
But the 16-year-old boy's gift of freedom is
locked In a prison cell.
Divorced from Brian's mother in 1082. Bennie
C. Tucker went into prison in Arizona last year to
start serving a 132-year sentence.
The offices of the governor of Oregon, an Arizo
na state senator and a California assemblyman are
working out whether Bennie Tucker flies to Port
land himself for the transplant operation, or just
his kidney
"They have to wait until the boy is stabilized,"
Steve Corson, an aide to Gov. Barbara Roberts,
said Monday. "Then they will proceed as the best
medical indications dictate. If that means bring
ing tin* boy's father up, that is what they will do."
Brian was horn with a kidney problem known
as prune belly svndrome.
The name comes from a lac k of muscle in the
abdominal wall, said his physician. Dr Dean
Raniele It also means less muscle in the kidney,
which leads to progressive kidney failure.
The name of the disease embarrasses Brian. The
demands the disease makes on his Inidy makes it
tough for him to go to school. But it hasn't
stopped him from wanting to grow up to he a car
toonist
"I could draw that stuff easv." he said recently
while watching cartoons to pass the* hours he
went through dialysis in Medford.
Life has not been easy for Brian, his 12-year-old
brother, Travis, and mother, Pamela Tucker.
Pamela and Bennie Tucker divorced after seven
years of marriage. Pamela Tucker said the drink
ing and fighting got to let too much.
She brought her sons to Ashland from Redding,
Calif., two years ago, leaving all their belongings
behind, to escape a bad relationship.
In Ashland, they found help through Dunn
House, an organization for abused women and
children, and the First Presbyterian Church,
which has established a fund for Brian.
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