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...anyone has a chance of laying out a sound middle path for U.S. policy, it is Lugar. Late last week, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, one of the Senate's most vehement supporters of tough sanctions, said, "I will truly listen to whatever Dick Lugar has to say on South Africa, and I think there's a reasonable prospect he will propose something with real teeth...
...committee chairman's institutional prerogative. Presiding at last week's stormy hearing, he sat primly with his hands folded and his jacket on, oblivious to the heat generated by both television lights and the querulous exchanges between wrought-up Senators and bristling Administration spokesmen. Precise and undramatic, Lugar, 54, comes across more like a fusty academic than a hands-on vote getter. He is regarded as thoughtful -- as opposed to purely brainy -- by friend and foe alike, a quality that stands out among legislators given to impulse. Always dressed in shades of dark gray and blue ("Once I owned...
...bipartisan respect that Lugar commands is testimony to his adept stewardship of the Foreign Relations Committee. In less than two years as chairman, the Rhodes scholar and former mayor of Indianapolis has taken firm charge of a committee that in recent years has been rendered virtually impotent by dissension. By working to put together strong majorities on foreign-policy issues, he has brought greater clout to the panel than it has enjoyed in a decade. "He's a good chairman," says the committee's ranking Democrat, Rhode Island's Claiborne Pell. "He's fair and patient and would prefer...
...Lugar began work on the plan he will present to the Senate committee this week, he was considering adding sanctions on new investments by U.S. companies in South Africa and a ban on imports from South Africa's state-owned steel and coal industries. If he seems calm about the policy storm looming, it may be because he is confident that his plan will receive serious attention. Says Lugar in a deceptively mild tone: "I'm not the kind of person who is easily rebuffed...
What worried the White House more was the revolt among moderate Republicans, who saw the President as being out of step with Congress and perhaps the voters. Republican Senator Richard Lugar, a consistent ally of the President's and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had urged Reagan to propose a new tack. He was clearly discouraged by the result. "I think the President needs to do more," he said afterward. "I had hoped the President would take this occasion for an extraordinary message to the world." Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas, a respected voice on African policy...