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...point there. It's important to know the candidates' records, of course, but was it really necessary to learn the distinction between the pre-New Hampshire strategies of Dick Lugar and Lamar Alexander? It used to be said that Americans paid no attention to the presidential race until after the World Series anyway. Given the length of the baseball season these days, a week is about all that's left...
...apply Mathews' theory, Dole triumphed in the primaries because he was the tallest man in the race. Dick Lugar was the shortest...
...items on his indictment are ticked off, Lugar chain-smokes and dismisses them one by one. That killing didn't happen, he says: "If anyone did such things, they would have been court-martialed immediately." The Gray Wolves didn't exist, and anyway I wasn't a paramilitary, he says: "No, no, I was in the regular army, Second Posavina Brigade." I wasn't in charge, he says: One of the other men indicted was the local police chief, and "there's no way I could have commanded him." It wasn't me, he says: "Anyone could use my name...
...While Lugar stares at his hands, the lawyer pitches a tale of innocent patriotism at odds with the cold, brawler's face of his client: how a good-hearted truck driver trying to make ends meet for a wife, two daughters, a sick mother, six cats and two parrots, gave up everything to defend his brother Serbs in Bosnia; how he never did anything but "stand guard" and "carry out ordinary military orders"; how in return for risking his life, he is broke and jobless, his children are shunned and his own government is trying to make him a scapegoat...
...Lugar is worried that his government will sell him out. He claims that the Belgrade secret police (who originally recruited him, the lawyer later suggests) variously want to arrest him and hand him over to the Hague or kill him to prevent him from surrendering to the tribunal or discredit him so he cannot testify against his superiors. He is bitter about his treatment. "In Croatia people like me have been rewarded," he complains...