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...Dole is the front-runner, Indiana Senator Richard G. Lugar is hot on his trail. Though he lacks the seniority of his competitors (Lugar first entered the Senate in 1976), he enjoys a velvety smooth relationship with the Reagan Administration and is well-liked for his conciliatory approach in the legislature. Moreover, Lugar chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which has dispersed more than $8 million so far to support 1984 Republican senatorial contenders. Those who survive close challenges on November 6 may find themselves grateful to the man who enabled them to buy more television ad time...
...hard? Because he remembers 1972 and the last G.O.P. landslide. "I went through the McGovern year," he says of his initial, unsuccessful run for Governor. "The coattail effect this year, the potential for a Reagan victory, is something I have to factor in." Indeed, last week Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, head of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, declared the West Virginia seat one of three he believes might be taken from the Democratic column...
Republicans, however, seem sure that the President's high standing in the polls will prove a boon for other Republican candidates. Senator Richard Lugar, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, calls Reagan's margin in the polls "the best single indicator in any state" of overall G.O.P. electoral chances. Reagan is taking every opportunity to tie his candidacy to those of other G.O.P. office seekers. Says a key House Republican campaign aide: "Should Ronald Reagan win in a landslide, but we fail to add to our numbers in the House, the Reagan revolution is over...
...some time Wilson has been urging the White House to extend diplomatic recognition. Reagan was receptive to the idea when John Paul II raised the possibility during the President's visit to the Vatican in 1982. Earlier this year, Indiana's Senator Richard Lugar, a Methodist, and the late Representative Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin, a Catholic, initiated legislation to remove an 1867 ban on funding a diplomatic mission to the Holy See. Vatican Secretary of State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli nailed things down at the White House last month...
Baker's uncertainty was not sudden, but was apparent as long ago as 1978. "Howard likes to wax nostalgic about the idea of the citizen-legislator," says Senator Lugar, referring to Baker's vision of responsible representatives in constant touch with the grass roots, who would do their duty and then step aside. Less romantically, Baker, a rich man when he came to the Senate, wants to replenish his personal coffers. His wife of 31 years, Joy, was successfully operated on last year for lung cancer. A pragmatic, contradictory, intensely private man, who once promised...