Word: lugar
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...RATTLE DICK LUGAR BY bringing up nuclear throw weights or prewar Serbian history. But just broach the charisma issue and the presidential candidate is on the defensive. Pundits hint that Lugar is charismatically challenged, that his political persona is as flat as an Indiana cornfield, that he is, in short, too bland to be President. "Gee," Dick Lugar says, "I know that people say I'm far too low-key, even that"--and here a brief, sad smile--"I'm dull...
...points East late this summer while trying to catch up with the G.O.P. front runners, Wilson repeated that "only three of us can expect to raise the table stakes for the whole primary campaign." This meant that only he, Dole and Phil Gramm--and not Pat Buchanan, Richard Lugar, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter or Alan Keyes--could hope to raise the estimated $20 million needed for the nomination marathon. Yet his organization's own estimates put Wilson's total last week just above $6 million, in contrast to $17 million for Dole and more than $12 million for Gramm. TIME...
When he approached the car, McCarthy observed the three occupants passing around a duffle bag inside of which was the Lugar 9 millimeter machine gun, police said...
...antagonists to fight until exhausted. Of course, some political-diplomatic settlement might still be patched together. But the only sure way to end the conflict is by overwhelming force, meaning up to 100,000 NATO troops prepared to stay for a long time, as advocated by Senator Richard Lugar and others. Is Bosnia worth it? A case can be made that it is, on moral grounds and as a deterrent to future aggressors. But there is no immediate, major U.S. national interest at stake to justify such a vast military effort. If that is the considered U.S. view, we should...
...unlikely. "In the first place, it's an amazingly difficult mission to expect these Marines to find 400 people in these mountains where the Serbs have lived for hundreds of years." More important, according to Thompson, is that sending in the Marines would likely be unpopular at home.Senator Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), a presidential hopeful, today cautioned President Clinton to seek Congressional approval before deploying any troops. ButSenate Majority leader Bob Dole said he supports intervention, saying it is time for the U.S. to follow through on its commitments in Bosnia. Maybe so, but as Thompson notes: "Clinton...