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Helms' responses to the attacks are testament to the powers of the incumbency. President Reagan, Vice President George Bush, half-a-dozen Reagan cabinet members and more than 33 U.S. senators have stumped in North Carolina on Helms' behalf. Most recently, in a highly controversial move, 22 U.S. ambassadors endorsed...
With Republican control of the Senate at issue and with Helms playing a key role in the ultra-conservative movement, a Hunt victory could strike a death-blow to the New Right. Thus, the stakes are high and the ultraconservatives have mobilized behind Helms.
For example, The Southern Baptist Advocate, a nationally distributed magazine published in Texas, says in support of Helms: "In North Carolina, it is a clear cut choice between those who stand on one side of moral issues and those who stand on the other."
On the campaign trail, Helms, a devout Southern Baptist, often hints at a divine mandate for his re-election.
In a rally at a recent Moose Lodge meeting in Durham, N.C., Helms recalled how in 1983 he narrowly missed being on Korean Airlines Flight 007. Helms said he chose to attend a Texas fund-raising event thrown by Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry, and therefore cancelled his booking on...