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...eight years in prison for entering the country illegally, though they said they were visiting a friend just across the border from Kuwait. At home, the White House fought GOP calls to consider a military rescue mission if Iraq does not release the men. Sunday, presidential candidate Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said President Clinton should publicly weigh military options, while House Speaker Newt Gingrich joined the chorus today: "We want this nonsense to stop." White House spokesman Mike McCurry, who dismissed Lugar's statements as campaign posturing, said the Administration would pursue a diplomatic solution. But he wouldn...
...Marines and carrier-based aircraft to assist with the pullout. About half the U.S. contingent would actually go ashore, a prospect that appalls some congressional leaders. "Despite all the rhetoric that we would not have troops on the ground, they will be on the ground," complains Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana. Nearly as worrisome to Congress is the price tag for bringing the U.N. mission home: $1 billion or more, according to a Pentagon estimate, much of which will be borne...
When he served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Lugar managed a fractious group of Senators through a thicket of contentious issues like aid to the contras. He persuaded Ronald Reagan to get the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos to leave office but lined up votes to override Reagan's veto of a bill imposing sanctions on South Africa. A supporter of the defeated balanced-budget amendment, he is rare among his colleagues in proposing specific cuts that hurt a powerful constituency that happens to be his own: farmers. He is leading the charge against farm subsidies, proposing cuts...
...Lugar is distinguished by his normality. Ambitious but not driven, the squeaky-clean Senator has returned $2.4 million of his personal office budget to the Treasury and rarely uses the franking privilege. He lives in suburban Virginia with Charlene, the college sweetheart he married 39 years ago and with whom he has four sons. The couple met when they shared the presidency of the student body at Denison University. While at Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, he volunteered for the Navy, where as an intelligence officer, he occasionally briefed President Eisenhower...
...problem for Lugar is that he may not be heard in the din of a campaign. A cheerful man, he is popular with his Senate colleagues and at home-he won a fourth term in November with 67% of the vote. Nevertheless, he comes across as stiff and bland, with sentences as perfectly clipped as his hair and nails. But his solid, serious nature could serve to distinguish him. An eat-your-spinach campaign helped Paul Tsongas win New Hampshire in 1992; if voters want no-frills straight talk from their politicians, Lugar may be their...