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The war, which brought images of bombings and suffering to television audiences everywhere, had stunningly served to portray Israel as the aggressor in its dealings with its Arab neighbors. The massacre involved more than 300 known deaths, and by the weekend it was believed the final total could reach the...
Another defeat fo Jesse Helms
The galleries of the ornate chamber were but two-thirds full, and the Senators chatted amiably and joked with one another as they filtered onto the floor last week. Yet if the mood seemed light and frivolous, the vote was decidedly not: for the fourth time in one week, Jesse...
"If we have to fight again another day, then we'll fight again another day," insisted Jesse Helms, the conservative North Carolina Republican who lost a bit of his reputation as a mover and shaker in the Senate by failing to win passage of the antiabortion bill. "We'...
The antiabortion forces hurt their own cause by bickering over which approach to take. Some favored a constitutional amendment, sponsored by Republican Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, that would give states and the Federal Government authority to outlaw abortion. The Hatch Amendment, if passed, would directly overturn a 1973 Supreme...