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Americans liked this Yeltsin, though -- his thumbs-up optimism, the hint of brash informality that underlay his new seriousness, his climb from underdog to winner. The next test, said Republican Senator Richard Lugar, member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is "how effective an executive he is." That means they'll like him even more if he delivers...
...wrong assumptions about China: first, that the U.S. has enough "leverage" to be a major influence on Chinese domestic developments, and second, that China either is or soon will be a great world power. "It's not just a failed policy of ((the past)) two years," says Senator Richard Lugar, a former chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "The fact is that we just haven't been able to influence China at all during most periods of history...
Greenpeace is the most opinionated of the new group. The current issue attacks Senator Richard Lugar and Congressman Kika de la Garza for allegedly helping allow imported vegetables to be treated with chemicals banned in the U.S. and derides U.S. News & World Report for promoting the views of a nuclear-industry coalition. Redesigned to enhance its appeal to general readers, the 28-page journal, which sells for $1.95, still resembles a house organ more than a slick consumer magazine. It is packed with reporting on the politics of nuclear testing, firsthand accounts of Greenpeace nautical confrontations with the Soviets...
...there is also a genuine concern about the apparent drift toward war for uncertain or ill-defined goals. Perhaps most striking was a request from Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana that the recessed Congress be called back into special session to debate a possible declaration of war. Lugar seemed confident that the Senate would back the President, if not in a declaration of war then in a more general resolution of support for his policy toward Saddam Hussein. But that is uncertain, and a close vote might suggest that Congress is not solidly united and thus prove highly damaging...
When Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said that 20,000 to 30,000 American deaths would be an acceptable price for toppling Saddam, you can bet your last dime that he wasn't including anyone in the Lugar family in that calculation...