Word: lugar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Henry Graff points out that we have had no ex-mayor as President since Grover Cleveland. "Mayors deal with garbage and garbage rubs off." Hubert Humphrey (Minneapolis) came close, however, and Senator Richard Lugar (Indianapolis), one of the biggest Republican winners on Nov. 2, gets talked about...
There are also new stirrings of congressional concern. In September, Senators Joseph Biden of Delaware, a Democrat, and Richard Lugar of Indiana, a Republican, introduced a bill that would set up a $50 million endowment for Soviet studies. The money will come none too soon. Says Marshall D. Shulman, director of Columbia's newly named Harriman Institute for Advanced Study of the Soviet Union: "The lead time for training a first-class specialist on the Soviet Union is longer than the lead time for a new missile." And the product may be more important. -By Ellie McGrath. Reported...
...Weicker Jr. (R) DEL. No Race William V. Roth Jr. (R) FLA. Bob Graham (D) Lawton Chiles (D) GA. Joe Frank Harris (D) No Race HAWAII George Ariyoshi (D) Spark M. Marsunaga (D) IDAHO * No Race ILL. Adlai E. Stevenson III (D) No Race IND. No Race Richard G. Lugar (R) IOWA Terry Branstad (R) No Race KAN. John Carlin (D) No Race KY. No Race No Race LA. No Race No Race ME. Joseph E. Brennan (D) George J. Mitchell (D) MD. Harry R. Hughes (D) Paul S. Sarbanes (D) MASS. Michael S. Dukakis (D) Edward M. Kennedy...
Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, sponsor of the Senate bill, insists that it will produce 400,000 new housing starts and provide 700,000 jobs. Most experts, however, predict that the measure will create, at best, a few thousand more homes. Even the National Association of Realtors, which would benefit from the bill, doubts that the program would work. Said Jack Carlson, chief economist for the trade group: "Getting down the deficit is the only solution...
...shepherd a budget-cutting revolution through Congress. The most egre gious example is the Clinch River breeder reactor, a costly ($3.2 billion) boondoggle that both Jimmy Carter and, initially, Ronald Reagan tried to scuttle. Baker was "in every direction" trying to win votes for this pet project, says Senator Lugar. Baker, a former member of the old Atomic Energy Committee, says he truly believes in breeder reactors, which produce as much fuel as they consume or more, despite the skepticism now expressed by most nuclear-energy scientists...