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A few pages away in the World section is Washington Bureau Chief Strobe Talbott's inside account of how, after years of feints and frustrations, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have just about reached a strategic-arms-reduction agreement, an achievement that will be at the center of next...
When the treaty reached the Senate floor last week, 90 lawmakers were ready to vote yes. A group of Democratic Senators, miffed at Reagan's reinterpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, has proposed an amendment that would prohibit any future President from reinterpreting the INF accord. But the largest...
An entire wall of Jesse Helms' Capitol Hill office is covered with political cartoons, most of them lampooning him as a rogue and obstructionist. The senior Senator from North Carolina takes impish delight in each and every one of them. "The uglier they are the quicker he puts them up...
Can the Jesse Helms who rises to greet a visitor, full of cracker-barrel charm and as well mannered as an overly polite schoolboy, really be the notorious "Senator No," scourge of the Senate? Poor, misunderstood Jesse Helms. A bulky 6 ft. 2 in., he has a jowly, owlish face...
Helms noted his long support of Reagan, but said, "I think he's wrong on this treaty, I think he's been misled, I think he's been misguided and my conscience will not allow me not to pursue the obvious defects of this treaty."