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During the news conference, Weld sharply attacked U.S. Senator Jesse Helms, a fellow Republican, for using "ideological extortion" to block his nomination as ambassador to Mexico.
Helms, the conservative chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, raised concerns that Weld has been too soft on drugs as governor, U.S. attorney in Massachusetts and as the former No. 3 official in the U.S. Justice Department. Specifically, Helms has objected to Weld's support for the medical use...
Back home Albright has made more than a dozen out-of-town trips to talk up foreign policy with Americans or to let influential Senators show her off with constituents. Her most ardent courtship has been of Senator Jesse Helms, the Foreign Relations Committee's curmudgeonly chairman whose home state...
It's too soon to tell how much difference the sound bites and charm campaigns are making. With the barbecue came a promise from Helms not to block the Senate from voting on a treaty banning chemical weapons. Albright persuaded Primakov to drop an objection on NATO-troops levels, which...
But Albright wasn't intimidating enough to force Tudjman or Milosevic to surrender war criminals or allow hundreds of thousands of refugees to return to their homes. Helms is still willing to make trouble for the Administration, announcing last week that he would block Massachusetts Governor William Weld's nomination...