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...sheer range and flagrancy of the cheating charged against the Marcos camp were impossible to ignore. Nonetheless, the Reagan Administration held back its comments pending the return from Manila of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who, along with 19 other delegates appointed by the President, monitored the voting. In interviews on the scene, almost all the observers professed themselves shocked by what they had seen. But even as the Lugar delegation arrived in Washington, the Administration was speaking in a variety of increasingly dissonant voices about how the election results should be viewed and how the U.S. should...
...Department staffers were dismayed by the statements that emerged from the Speakes briefing. The diplomats at Foggy Bottom requested a "clarification" of the White House views. But before that request was formally answered, President Reagan held a 40-minute meeting at the White House on Tuesday with the returning Lugar...
Legislators of both parties began protesting these proposals even as they were being presented. At Senate hearings, Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn told Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger that the Pentagon would be lucky to escape with a budget increase barely offsetting inflation. Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar warned that "the Administration is inviting catastrophe" by proposing to increase foreign aid while slashing domestic spending...
...parallel, informal vote count by a volunteer organization known as the National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL) had been severed. In many parts of the country, private citizens spent the night after the vote protecting ballot boxes with their bodies. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, who headed a 20- member delegation of official U.S. observers at the election exercise, declared that a "very disturbing pattern of incidents" had emerged. Said he: "The count is being shaped to what the President needs...
Kerry, a member of a U.S. team led by Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) that observed last Friday's election said, the voting was marred payoffs, violence and ballot rigging...