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Of all the Tarheels of North Carolina, nobody has more tar on his heels than Republican Jesse Helms. At 74, Helms has served in the Senate for 23 years, and has got himself so happily stuck there as a leading proponent of archconservative values that he appears virtually inextricable.
It would seem the height of cockeyed optimism for anyone to try to unshoe him; yet not one, but two cockeyed optimists are contending in North Carolina's Democratic primary next week for the sporting honor of challenging the Senator when he runs for a fifth term in November. One...
THE HELMS-BURTON ACT, IMPOSING EVEN harsher trade sanctions on Cuba, is draconian legislation. In proposing it, Senator Jesse Helms self-righteously stated that Canadians should be ashamed of themselves for cooperating with the Castro regime. Let's set the record straight. Canada entered the fight against tyranny in World...
HELMS-BURTON IS A SMOKE SCREEN TO deflect the attention of the public away from the inadequacies of U.S. foreign policy regarding Cuba. Is the American government really so concerned about the morality of doing business with what it calls an oppressive dictatorship? The issue here is not morality. It...
The advocates of containment are led by an odd-bedfellow alliance of human-rights activists and old cold warriors. "Both [Senator Edward] Kennedy and [Senator Jesse] Helms are in a pro-Taiwan mode," says a senior U.S. official, "the former because of China's appalling human-rights record, the latter...