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| | TIME.com: Jesse Helms, the Face of Hard-Core Conservatism, Will Call it Quits -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Jesse Helms, the five-term Senator from North Carolina and the face of pre-Reagan, pre-Gingrich American conservatism, is expected to announce tonight that he will not run again for office. |
 | | Helms fights hard to maintain a vigorous image: Battles with prostate cancer and peripheral neuropathy have compromised his health in recent years, but his often biting wit and political prowess are still very much on display. |
 | | Helms, who began his career as a newspaperman and television commentator, was a Democrat until 1970. |
| www.time.com /time/nation/article/0,8599,172069,00.html (846 words) |
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