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Conflict. Some Democrats doubtless cast what politicians called "penance votes": having opted for a Republican President, they came back to their party for other offices. But most were in a selective mood; personalities and state-level disputes weighed at least as heavily as national politics. Thus in Kentucky, where voters...
- No one summed up the political philosophy of North Carolina's new Republican Senator-elect, Jesse Helms, better than Barry Goldwater. "If you want to out-Goldwater Goldwater," the Arizona Senator told North Carolinians, "let him come." Helms, in his victory over three-term Congressman Nick Galifianakis for the...
Richard Nixon's 59 per cent showing in North Carolina appeared to have helped major Republican hopefuls in the state Jesse Helms came from behind to edge liberal Democrat Nick Galifianakis in the Senate race with 53 per cent, while the GOP's James Holshouser appeared to have bested Hargrove...
The odds would be longer were it not for the Nixon landslide apparently building in North Carolina. Opponent Jesse Helms, 51, is a Raleigh television commentator who never before has run for office and, indeed, switched to the G.O.P. only two years ago. Arch-conservative Helms, who also broadcast over...
Until tighter international arrangements can be worked out, the U.S. is doing what it can unilaterally. President Nixon has appointed a Cabinet-level committee, including Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, CIA Chief Richard Helms and Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III, to oversee a war...