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...National Citizens Movement for Free Elections (NAMFREL), an independent group that helped prevent widespread fraud in the 1984 parliamentary elections, to monitor the balloting. In addition, President Reagan last week appointed a delegation of lawmakers and private citizens to observe the vote. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, agreed to take part in the mission despite some reservations. Said he: "It would be a serious mistake for the United States not to demonstrate its support for democracy in the Philippines." Other lawmakers refused to go on the grounds that any U.S. presence could serve to legitimize...
...Congress. His work on the Hill also was influential in saving the MX missile program. He managed to take some of the anti-Soviet sting out of presidential speeches written by Patrick Buchanan, a conservative columnist brought to the White House by Regan. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last week called McFarlane "a brilliant, constructive and stabilizing influence in American foreign policy...
...Intelligence sounded a similarly bleak note. The panel released a report predicting that the Marcos regime could fall in three years. The committee chairman, Republican Senator David Durenburger of Minnesota, went so far as to call on Marcos to step down. "Our patience is running out," added Richard Lugar of Indiana, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. "I don't think President Marcos has gotten the word...
...Reagan's measure included most provisions in a sanctions bill already approved by the House but not yet passed by the Senate. Republicans, by and large, were relieved that the President conceded as much as he did. "We ought to declare victory," said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar. "Not for our bill but for a unified policy toward South Africa." Many Democrats, on the other hand, were not happy at the thought that a Republican $ President had stolen their thunder and fought to continue the confrontation. Some complained that Reagan's measure failed to include a proposal...
...think it will be a very tough political issue in 1986," said Sen. Richard J. Lugar (R-Ind.) chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "The votes that are going to be cast are ones that are going to be remembered for a long time, and if they (voters) forget about them they are going to be reminded...