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The nomination died when Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), who chairs the foreign relations committee, refused to schedule a hearing.
You can't win 'em all, especially with a Cold War-era game plan: Washington's resolution condemning Cuba was slapped down at a U.N. human rights forum yesterday, but the news from Europe was better -- the EU is dropping its World Trade Organization complaint against the Helms-Burton Act...
That's hardly surprising, when Congress still sulkily refuses to pay an ever-rising U.S. debt to the U.N. -- $1.7 billion and counting. President Clinton is sending a bill to the Hill that would cover $1 billion of that -- but what Annan will want to know is whether any strings...
"We must do everything we can under our constitutional system to stop the killing of unborn children. We're talking about life and death." So said Carl Anderson, legislative aide to Republican Senator Jesse Helms, at a Conservative Political Action Conference a week ago in Washington, D.C. The words were...
In New York City, Butler and senior UNSCOM officials were not happy when they first read over the memorandum. "There were procedures in Kofi's agreement that UNSCOM has worked to get rid of," says one. Adding diplomats, along with a political adviser reporting to Annan, inserted another layer into...