Helms to Oppose Lake’s Nomination

Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms said he would vote against Anthony Lake’s nomination to head the CIA, but predicted that Lake would be confirmed. “I can’t support Mr. Lake based on a number of things,” Helms, a North Carolina Republican, said in remarks taped for the CNN program “Evans & Novak.” “I will vote ‘no’. I don’t want to attack him but there are too many things that are too wrong for me in his background and I suspect there are a lot of senators that feel that way,” Helms said.