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Incoming foreign relations committee chairman Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) -- the subject of a recent firestorm over interviews he's given about President Clinton's performance -- today used his recent high media profile to bash the press. He may have been apologetic after his recent remark that President Clinton...
But it is important to distinguish Helms' ferocious bark from his bite. The Senator has said, for example, that he favors a "surgical" operation to decapitate Fidel Castro, but he doesn't have the power to make something like that happen. His rough agenda as chief of the foreign policy...
Other priorities are more peculiar to Helms. According to a staff memorandum obtained last week by TIME, Helms has chosen some personal priorities: to examine whether to fold the Foreign Service into the civil service; to reconsider Washington's relations with the U.N.; to do away with the Arms Control...
Helms' distaste for foreign aid is longstanding, as he bluntly told a news conference in Raleigh the day after the election: "The foreign aid program has spent an estimated $2 trillion of the American taxpayer's money, much of it going down foreign ratholes to countries that constantly oppose us...
While the prospect of nonstop hearings promises to make life miserable at the State Department, senior Clinton officials are not visibly troubled by Helms yet. In a pep talk to his top aides, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott pointed out that Presidents retain huge advantages in managing foreign affairs...