Word: lugar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...member American observer team led by Sen.Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), chairman of the SenateForeign Relations Committee, came here at Marcos'invitation. But there are thousands of votingstations in this nation of islands...
...National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL), an independent group that helped prevent widespread fraud in the 1984 parliamentary elections, to monitor the balloting. In addition, President Reagan last week appointed a delegation of lawmakers and private citizens to observe the vote. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, agreed to take part in the mission despite some reservations. Said he: "It would be a serious mistake for the United States not to demonstrate its support for democracy in the Philippines." Other lawmakers refused to go on the grounds that any U.S. presence could serve to legitimize...
...Shultz's staying power seems to be his ability to divine Reagan's true wishes on a given issue. Says Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: "I'm not certain who convinces whom. As you listen to Shultz, he makes you believe the President convinces him." The key to his clout, however, is more subtle: he has transformed Reagan's strong yet less-focused instincts into policies and actions. It is a skill that he learned on the job. When he was summoned to Foggy Bottom, he did not know Reagan well. But he began meeting privately...
...Congress. His work on the Hill also was influential in saving the MX missile program. He managed to take some of the anti-Soviet sting out of presidential speeches written by Patrick Buchanan, a conservative columnist brought to the White House by Regan. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last week called McFarlane "a brilliant, constructive and stabilizing influence in American foreign policy...
...Intelligence sounded a similarly bleak note. The panel released a report predicting that the Marcos regime could fall in three years. The committee chairman, Republican Senator David Durenburger of Minnesota, went so far as to call on Marcos to step down. "Our patience is running out," added Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. "I don't think President Marcos has gotten the word...