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- NATION, Page 21American NotesCONGRESSLimousine Libertine?
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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