News Article Excerpts on North Carolina Senate Elections

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rI really think you're going to have to go to North Carolina to get any
relief,rr he told lawyers for the Democratic National Committee.

At a press conference this afternoon at Democratic Party headquarters here,
the party chairman, E. Lawrence Davis 3d, said it was too late to take any legaI
action before the Tuesday voting. But he called upon Democrats not to be
intinidated by the Republican mailing and said his party would ask state
election officiats to issue rules to head off any future nailings.

ttThis is a false statementrtt he said of the card, which te1ls voters that
they cannot vote if they have not lived in their precinct nfor at least the
previons 3O days.tt The card hrarns that vote fraud is'rpunishable by up to five
years in jail. tr

State election officials said the card's comment on the penalty was correct.
But the 3O-day time limit, they said, is incorrect because there are special
procedures for voting in case of a recent nove.
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Lawyers for the Repubtican National Committee said the national party had
done aII possible to obey the Newark court's 1981 decree and was not involved in
the North Carolina effort.

rWe donrt know anything about that program except what we've read in the
papers,rt Thomas W. Kirby, one Republican lawyer, told the court. trlt is not
itLrinutable to the Republican National Committee-rl

Meanwhile today, Senator Helms and Mr. Gantt, dn architecL who moved into
elective politics after his involvement in civil rights issues, embarked on a
final day of campaigning in their bitterly fought contest.

Mr. Helms, dt an airport press conference here moments before taking off on a
round-the-state tour, characterized the race as a clear-cut contest between rra

l-iberal and a conservative and that's about it-rr

Mr. Gantt, dt a noon rally here, said the contest was an effort for North
Carolinians to t,say to the nation that North Carolina cares, that we are a
positive people.r' Then he too left on his own tour of the state.

GRAPHIC: photo: The North Carolina Republican Party's program of rnailings to
voters appeared to violate a lg82 court order, a Federal judge said. Senator
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Jesse He1ms, the Repubtican candidate, carried a teddy bear, a gift from a
supporter, as he feit a campaign rally yesterday in Charlotte. (Associated
Press )

SUBJECT: ELECTIONS; I{INORITIES ( ETHNIC, RACIAL, RELIGIOUS ) ,. BLACKS ( IN US )

oRGANIZATION: REPUBLICAN PARTY; DEMOCRATIC PARTY; DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE;
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMUITTEE

NAME: AYRES, B DRUMMOND JR; DEBEVOISE, DICKINSON R (JUDGE); HELI{S, JESSE (SEN)

GEOGRAPHIC: NORTH CAROLINA

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Indeed, some analysts say the prospect of runnj-ng against Mr. Helms and his
political organ5-zation, the National Conqressj-ona1 C1ub, is so harrowing that
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it affects the field from the start.
, rpart of the longr-range Congressional Club plan is to rnake it so painfut to

run against Helms thit people don't do itr " said Ted Arrington, chairman of the
political science deparLment at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
"And it works very we11. "

Many Democrats say any campaign against Mr. Helms should portray him as out
of touln with the state and nore concerned with an extremist agenda than with
the needs and worries of average North Carolinians.

At the National Congressional CIub, a Helms adviser, Carter Wrenn, predicted
a close election, but he seemed unruffled-

While Mr. Helmsrs recent crusade against the National Endowment for the Arts
for an exhibition of photographs that depict homosexual acts and nude children
has drawn criticism aiound-the country, Mr. Wrenn said he thought the issue was
a plus here.

,rThe only people who are really up in arms about it, and they are really up
in arms, are the radical, sort of avant-garde artistic communitYr" newspapers
and lefi-wing groups, Mr. Wrenn said. StiII, on the basis of that and other
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issues, Mr. Wrenn said he expected "a luon" of outside money to corne into the
state to fight Mr. Helms.

,rnerve been able to have a national base to raise funds from because of Mr-
Helms,S ro1er " he said, "but we're fighting a national base, Eoo-"

For now, though, the race stays strangely forrnless until the Democrats
produce a nominee.

GRAPHIC: photos: Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina (The New York Times),
1eft, is being challenged for re- election by Harvey Gantt, a former mayor of
Chariotte, N.C., who is hoping to build a power base among black voters. (The
Charlotte Observer /Bob Leverone)

SUBJECT: ELECTIONS; PUBLIC OPINION

ORGANIZATION: SENATE (US); REPUBLICAN PARTY; DEMOCRATIC PARTY

NAI{E: HELMS, JESSE (SEN); THOII{AS, BO; EASLEY, MIKE (DIST ATTY); INGRAM, JOHN;
GANTT, HARVEY; TONER, ROBIN; HIJNT, JI!l[ (GOV)

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