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...Nunn (D-Ga.) and Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said in a news conference at the Charles Hotel yesterday that the U.S. must increase its commitment to reducing the threat of nuclear weapons in the former Soviet Union...
...senators, who established the Nunn-Lugar program to assist in dismantling nuclear weapons, recently returned from an eight-day visit of the former Soviet Union...
...Lugar, who is former chair of the SenateForeign Relations Committee, said that dismantlingnuclear weapons is critical to national security...
...food can be flown in. But the Bush Administration was reluctant to intervene directly, despite its concern that Serbian shelling might hit a major toxic-chemical plant north of Sarajevo and trigger an environmental disaster. Impatience with the Serbian onslaught is growing in the U.S. Senate. Says Senator Richard Lugar: "The time for drawing the line has come...
...hope of competing internationally," he says in A Call to Economic Arms. "That means an industrial policy." Tsongas traces his affinity for government involvement in the private sector to the 1979 Chrysler bailout. He applauds his own leadership on the issue, but the driving force was really Senator Richard Lugar, an Indiana Republican. "Tsongas was important to show bipartisan support," says Roger Altman, the former Assistant Treasury Secretary in charge of the Carter Administration's effort to save Chrysler. "But it was Lugar who really made the deal fly by insisting on some fairly impressive union givebacks and other concessions...