The director of North Carolina’s Civil Liberties...

The director of North Carolina’s Civil Liberties Union said in Raleigh that he bought 12 shares of CBS stock so Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) “will never get his hands” on it. Helms has mailed letters to conservative supporters urging them to buy enough CBS stock to take over the network and end what he called “the liberal bias” in its news coverage. “I went out and bought 12 shares of stock yesterday, and I can’t afford it,” said George Gardner, executive director of North Carolina’s ACLU. “That’s 12 shares Jesse Helms will never get his hands on.”