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Under another senior Republican, Jesse Helms, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has virtually ceased to function. The Administration wouldn't entertain his reorganization plan for the State Department, so Helms retaliated by refusing for months to confirm 18 ambassadors. Meanwhile, START II, the chemical-weapons convention, nine bilateral investment treaties...
Achtenberg, one of the nation's highest ranking lesbian politicians, is no less controversial: Her appointment by President Clinton to serve as undersecretary of HUD was approved only after Democrats stopped a filibuster by U.S. Sen. Jesse C. Helms (R-N.C.).
Not everyone, however, was so pleased. Demonstrators followed Castro around, calling out, "Assassin!" Jose Cardenas, the director of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Washington, said, "How dispiriting for Cubans sitting in misery and squalor to see Fidel feted in New York by the powers that be. His acceptance by...
REMEMBER ROBERT Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano and Karen Finley, those artistic troublemakers who were targeted by Senator Jesse Helms and other moral guardians campaigning against government funding of "obscene" art? They're back. But in this case, they're not hitting up the National Endowment for the Arts for money. Their...
Helms and his fellow watchdogs need not worry; the first edition of the catalog, published last month, contains no S&M poodle collars, urine-filled snow globes or bare-bottomed Barbie dolls. Indeed, the items are often striking but decidedly noncontroversial. There is a plate decorated with one of Mapplethorpe...