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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Jesse Helms didn?t come cheap. TIME?s Doug Waller reports that Helms agreed to stop blocking the chemical weapons treaty from coming to a Senate floor vote only when the White House pledged to reorganize the State Department. "It was a trade. Neither side wants to admit it, because Helms doesn't want to be perceived as selling out his opposition to the chemical weapons convention for his pet rock of reorganizing the State Department, while the Administration doesn't want to be perceived as reorganizing the State Department just to satisfy Helms and get a treaty...
...Reported by James Carney, Douglas Waller and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...Take His Management Course: Douglas Waller reports that An thony Lake has the votes he needs to win Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation as CIA Chief sometime next week, but he's certainly off to a bad start as the man who proposes to manage the flow of the most sensitive information. Bad enough that La ke somehow never learned from his NSC subordinates of keen FBI concerns that China was trying to influence congressional elections. Questions about his competence deepened today on reports that even after his own NSC tried to warn the White House that Joh nny Chung...
...unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government spokesman. TIME's Douglas Waller notes that Jiang and Li may have returned to the capital to deal with the defection of North Korean official Hwang Jang Yop, currently ensconced in the South Korean embassy in Beijing. Waller notes that there is a more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short...
...unexpectedly cut short countryside visits this weekend to return to Beijing. The Chinese government insisted on Tuesday that Deng's health was fairly good for a man of his years. "There has been no major change in Comrade Deng Xiaoping's health," assured one government spokesman. TIME's Douglas Waller notes that Jiang and Li may have returned to the capital to deal with the defection of North Korean official Hwang Jang Yop, currently ensconced in the South Korean embassy in Beijing. Waller notes that there is a more telling signal to watch for: "If his close relatives cut short...