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INDIANAPOLIS 鈥?Former Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican foreign policy sage known for leading efforts to help the former Soviet states dismantle and secure much of their nuclear arsenal, but whose reputation for working with Democrats cost him his final campaign, died Sunday. He was 87.Lugar died at the Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute in Virginia from complications related to chronic inflammatory demylinating polyneuropathy, or CIPD, a rare neurological disorder, the Lugar Center in Washington said in a statement announcing his death. The statement said his wife, four sons, and their families were with him throughout his short illness at the hospital.A soft-spoken and thoughtful former Rhodes Scholar, Lugar dominated Indiana politics during his 36 years in the U.S. Senate. That popularity gave him the freedom to concentrate largely on foreign policy and national security matters 鈥?a focus highlighted by
stanley cup his collaboration with Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn on a program under which the U.S. paid to dismantle and secure thousands of nuclear warheads and missiles in the former Soviet states after the Cold War
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stanley cup heft opportunity for terrorists and a temptation for security personnel who might seek to profit by selling weapons on the black market, Lugar said in 2005. We do not want the question posed the day after an attack on an American military base.United States senators Carl Levin L , D-M Nbno Giant pandas will return to Washington s National Zoo by year s end
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., leads President Bush in terms of endorsements, but in an age when many people get their news from the Internet and cable news channels, experts question the influence of newspaper endorsements on voters.As of Monday, 128 newspapers ; editorial pages had endorsed Senator Kerry, while 105 newsp
asics apers supported President Bush for a second term, according to Editor Publisher magazine. The papers backing Senator Kerry account for 16.9 million readers compared to 10.9 million readers of paper
salomon s for the president.More significantly, Senator Kerry picked up a total of 35 papers that had backed Mr. Bush in 2000, including Michigan Flint Journal, Washington Seattle Times, New Mexico Albuquerque Tribune and the Morning Call of Allentown, Pa. Meanwhile, President Bush picked up four papers that had supported then Vice President Al Gore four years ago, including Colorado Denver Post, Michigan Macomb Daily, Pennsylvania Yor
jordan k Daily Record and the Herald-Journal of Spartanburg, S.C., EP reported Oct. 25.Some media experts, however, said newspaper endorsements are less likely to sway large numbers of voters, who get information from a variety of sources.Editorial endorsements are dinosaurs. The vast majority of the public don ;t read editorials, Larry Sabato, political science professor and head of the University of Virginia Center for Politics told UPI, a wire news service. 822
