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...Treasury Secretary Donald Regan and White House Chief of Staff James Baker finished their pas de deux in the West Wing press room, Congressmen tried to put a cautiously upbeat spin on the news. "It seems logical once you get over the first surprise," ventured Indiana Republican Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "It's something I wouldn't have thought of," said Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole of Kansas. "But it turns out it's a good switch...
...persuade Capitol Hill to restore contra funding. Congress approved $14 million in CIA aid for the rebels in October, but insisted that Reagan submit the proposal for a second vote in March before the funds could be spent. Passage may be more difficult than the Administration expects. Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, the new chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, predicted last week that Congress would reject requests for more...
...significant addition to the ranks of traditional liberal protesters came last week. Indiana's Republican Senator Richard Lugar, incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Republican Senator Nancy Kassebaum, head of a subcommittee on Africa, sent a letter to Reagan urging him to speak out more forcefully against apartheid. They complained that the State Department had failed to attack "the evils of apartheid and the violations of human rights in a straightforward, understandable manner." In addition, 35 conservative Congressmen, including such New Right Turks as Georgia Republican Newt Gingrich, invited South African Ambassador Bernardus Fourie to Capitol...
...Richard Lugar will become chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, ending weeks of speculation that North Carolina's right-wing Senator Jesse Helms, the most senior member of the panel, would exercise his option to head it. The post opened up when Illinois' Charles Percy, a moderate, lost his reelection bid Nov. 6. Some conservatives had been pressuring Helms to take the Foreign Relations post, especially if Lugar won the majority leader election and left Maryland's Charles McC. Mathias, a liberal, in line for the job. Last week Helms quietly urged his backers to vote against...
...nosed out Western Conservatives Jake Garn of Utah and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming for the chairmanships of the Republican Conference of the Senate and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which serve as the party caucus and fund-raising arm, respectively. Both men are notably less conservative than McClure and Lugar. whom they replace. "The White House is not going to like it." said one moderate Republican Senator...