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WASHINGTON, Feb. 24 — ''One arrest, no conviction,'' Senator Bob Packwood said today, summing up his brush with the law in the early morning. His crime: absence from a quorum call. His punishment: being dragged onto the floor of the Senate by police officers to be recorded as present. While he did not enter a charge of police brutality, a recent bone injury on Senator Packwood's ring finger was aggravated in the encounter.

Senate Packwood Hearing Carries into Second Day By William J. Eaton The Senate, facing an unprecedented confrontation with one of its members, wrestled Monday with whether to go to court to force Republican Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon to turn over hundreds of pages of personal diaries as part of an ethics committee investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and possible criminal wrongdoing. After seven hours of often tedious debate over legal technicalities and constitutional questions, the Senate retired for the night, its leaders vowing to vote sometime Tuesday on whether to support the committee's effort to obtain the diaries...

The Senate, facing an unprecedented confrontation with one of its members, wrestled Monday with whether to go to court to force Republican Sen. Bob Packwood of Oregon to turn over hundreds of pages of personal diaries as part of an ethics committee investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and possible criminal wrongdoing. After seven hours of often tedious debate over legal technicalities and constitutional questions, the Senate retired for the night, its leaders vowing to vote sometime Tuesday on whether to support the committee's effort to obtain the diaries by subpoena. So sensitive was the issue that by nightfall Monday...