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...later appointment. It was clear from the start that even with the Democrats' 60-vote Senate supermajority, which evaporated with Republican Scott Brown's election in January, the confirmation would not be easy. And it wasn't, despite support from hundreds of law professors and one Senate Republican, Richard Lugar of Indiana. After her nomination was first reported out of committee, it languished through 2009. Obama had to renominate Johnsen again this year, resulting in a second hearing in March...
This anti-U.S. resentment strikes many in Washington as a tad ungrateful - not to mention misplaced - given that last fall, Congress enacted the Kerry-Lugar bill granting Pakistan over $7.5 billion in economic aid over the next five years. In addition, Pakistan receives military hardware and training to combat Pakistani Taliban - whose wrath is focused on Islamabad - in the mountainous borderlands with Afghanistan...
...that, Washington's latest act of largesse, the Kerry-Lugar bill, has unintentionally riled the Pakistani army. The billions came with strings attached. The generals opposed one of the conditions of the bill: that the U.S. must be satisfied that the Pakistani military was fighting terrorism and not, as the legislation said, "subverting the political and judicial processes of Pakistan." Says Talat Masood, a retired general and military analyst in Islamabad: "Some in the army think this is intrusive and a loss to our sovereignty...
...died a revered figure. But her legacy was global. For the U.S., it marked the start of the Reagan doctrine to oppose authoritarianism of the right and left, and she helped inspire peaceful upheavals around the world. She showed that one person of modest demeanor can change history. -Richard Lugar Lugar is a U.S. Senator from Indiana (See the full list of TIME's Fond Farwells...
...resistance of politically potent Cuban-American voters. But the newest bill, the freedom to travel to Cuba act, introduced this year in both the House and Senate, suddenly has Cuban-American backing - and as a result a decidedly better chance of passing. In a recent statement, Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, a Republican and co-sponsor, called this "a very good time for public diplomacy with Cuba."(See a photoessay about the fading sound of Salsa in Cuba...