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There is a melancholy echo these days for Richard Helms, former head of the CIA, as he trudges to the Pentagon and pulls up a chair in the somber interior of Room 3E333. He and ten other members of the President's Commission on Strategic Forces have been asked...
As Helms nears 70, his belief that strength brings peace, that vigilance thwarts aggression, is undimmed. And so he is back in public service, alarmed at the rising number of people in the free world who accept without question Soviet declarations of peace, who grow flaccid out of fear of...
Fifty years ago this Sunday, Jan. 30, 1933, when Helms was a Williams College sophomore getting ready for exams he heard that Adolf Hitler had become dictator of Germany. Two years later, in the fall of 1935, Helms was a United Press reporter in Berlin, hunched forward in his seat...
Rostow had other problems with the White House. It undercut his attempt to appoint the man he wanted as his deputy, Robert Grey, a career State Department official, choosing to give in to the challenge of a few conservative Republican Senators, including North Carolina's Jesse Helms. Reagan, in...
The New Right claimed Adelman's nomination as a victory. Senator Jesse Helms, who fought Eugene Rostow's moves toward flexibility, pronounced himself "very encouraged." But White House aides say that Adelman will take a moderate stance. Suggests one Administration insider: "Adelman can do three things Rostow couldn...