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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Washington on a two-day visit, got some good news from President Clinton, who said he would seek to include U.S. troops in any peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights. The chairman- presumptive of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Jesse Helms, had earlier...
At first Bill Clinton knew exactly what he wanted to do after learning that North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms had told a Raleigh newspaper that the President "better have a bodyguard" if he ever visited his state. "I'm ready to go to North Carolina right now," an angry Clinton...
Instead White House aides glimpsed an opportunity. Helms' blast -- the second reckless salvo from the archconservative Republican in four days -- offered Clinton a chance to point out how extremist Republicans can be. His public reaction was carefully studied: calling Helms' comments "unwise and inappropriate," the President suggested that Republicans might...
Certainly, nowhere is the prospect of Republican control of the Hill as disagreeable to Clinton as on Foreign Relations. For the past seven years, the panel has been a quiet congressional backwater, politely posing few problems for Clinton or his predecessor, George Bush. But control of the panel moves from...
Now, as chairman of the prestigious committee, Helms will be in a position to make his strongly conservative -- and sometimes highly quixotic -- foreign policy views matter. Two weeks ago, he sent Clinton a letter threatening to give the Administration's foreign policy a rough ride for the next two years...