Word: lugar
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...Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) has decided to join the Republican pack of presidential contenders, his advisers told the Associated Press today. Lugar is expected to confirm his decision on CNN's "Larry King Live" tomorrow night. The AP reported that Lugar also has scheduled a news conference for Friday morning, although he plans to hold off on a formal announcement until April. Lugar, 62, is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and most likely will stress his international affairs experience on the 1996 campaign trail...
...Phil Gramm (R-Texas) is currently the only declared Republican candidate. Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kan.), former Gov. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), Sen. Richard Lugar(R-Ind.), Rep. Robert Dornan (R-Cal.), commentatorPatrick J. Buchanan, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)and former Labor Secretary Lynn Martin will alsolikely vie for the nomination...
...Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), who heads the Senate Agriculture Committee, reportedly will seek to cut farm subsidies by a whopping 30 percent through the year 2000 -- ten times as large as the cuts that President Clinton sought in his budget proposal. Lugar will lay out his proposal before the Senate Budget Committee (which is working on the balanced budget amendment) tomorrow, but the basics of his plan were reported in The Washington Post today in a column by political writer David Broder. Lugar would shave $15 billion from an anticipated $50 billion spending on farm programs over five years. Clinton...
...incredible shrinking field,'' says William Kristol, a top Republican strategist. ``Others could still jump in, but we probably know who the candidates are.'' Namely: Dole, Texas Senator Phil Gramm, former Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander, former Vice President Dan Quayle, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, and possibly Indiana Senator Richard Lugar and one or two G.O.P. Governors. The wild card: Colin Powell, the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...Ridge nuclear-storage facility in Tennessee. Over the next several months, the Energy Department will entertain offers from private industry to turn the highly enriched uranium into lower- grade commercial reactor fuel. The Administration touted the mission as a good reason to keep money flowing to the beleaguered Nunn-Lugar account. The fund -- named for sponsors Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia and Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana -- is a congressional appropriation that finances denuclearization in the states of the former Soviet Union. It is likely to face opposition next year as the G.O.P. takes over Congress...