European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Indiana Richard Lugar this Young Man is qom no to be a photos Lugar relieves some tensions by Here the who likes to stay in touch with the Home talks to by Mik Shanahan associated press when the ambassador from Iraq recently came calling on Richard he wanted to discuss not just any mind but Corn grown in sugars Home i was amazed that he told me in detail How much Corn Iraq had imported from Indiana in recent years and he had it All on three five says who found 30 other ambassadors from around the world abnormally Well informed about the state of it was a statement of sugars newfound Power As head of the Senate foreign relations but the Power has sometimes backfired for those who have held the Job before As he travelled across the Snow covered Flatland of Indiana Lugar was conscious that three nation ally known chairmen in the last decade William Frank Church and Charles Percy were All knocked from office by voters who decided they lost touch with the folks Back Lugar rejects the comparison out of it is pack a preoccupation with the idea that the chairman of the foreign relations committee will become Remote As you become involved in worldly the 52yearold Republican sen Ator maybe but before nearly audience Lugar addressed in a grueling week of Lincoln Day dinners across he reminded voters that his new prominence in Washington is not the result of his own Ambi but of Percy defeat in Illinois last november and a decision by Jesse to head another but now that he has the he it is Good for shortly after becoming Lugar moved to reestablish the committee As an influential foreign policy voice in his he is to re store a bipartisan National consensus on foreign relations that he believes existed before the Vietnam under the committee has heard from most of the big names in foreign policy Cyrus James Alexander Haig and George sugars own foreign policy views parallel although he has criticized the president for not taking a harder line on apartheid in South Africa and for seeking Only a military solution in in a Teet Taler and is perceived As a highly controlled personality who gets High Marks for his but few Rush to hear his which he delivers in a Flat midwestern using few Lugar is a colourless Public very but he impresses people with his grasp of issues and the inside politics of any situation and so he has moved along says a Republican admirer in the sen it was not always Lugar remembers As a student at Denison col lege in he would become really enraged when Ever he lost a fraternity pingpong the tantrums were not limited to table i used to play Golf with clubs strewn up and Down the Lugar i can see them going end to As a Young Navy Lugar there came a fateful Day when he was persuaded to get his temper under i was playing Golf with my wife Down at the Jack Sonville naval air station in Florida i had been driving poorly All Lugar on the 18th i hit another drive that was totally i wrapped the club around a the head came i had separate pieces in my recalls the senator with a i afford to keep replacing i was just an Ensign and didst have any i All of the irrational fits have got to come to a Over Lugar i have become rather even in his Early Lugar Cut Short his naval Ca reer to return to to take Over a family business and farm that were in danger of i was pressing very he i was getting headaches and stomach i gee i am Only 30 years of age and i feel about the time Lugar was elected mayor of Indiana Polis in he began running he now Cov ers about 25 Miles a usually accompanied by one or More he says its made an enormous differ ence in terms of my stamina and both physical and emotional i feel much better Able to Cope with things than i did As a Young Lugar and i May be a nicer before the Home Lugar plays Down speculation that he has ambitions beyond the but to an he also enthusiastically recalls a trip to North Carolina a few years ago where a confidante in the introduced him to the Republican Helms this Young Man is going to be listen Over 11 years in the Lugar has made Many of the moves required for moving including a Brief shot at the 1980 gop vice presidential a term As chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign commit and last Falls unsuccessful Campaign to become sen ate majority asked if he might try again for the top leadership Post in the Lugar 1 dont want to give any impression that there arc incipient rivals out i am very pleased with what i am doing a native of Indianapolis and a fifth generation Hoo Lugar is the father of four he ran for the Indianapolis school Board in 1964 and has risen steadily Ever winning the mayoral election at As Lugar was credited with quieting racial tensions during the period of Martin Luther King assassination and beginning a redevelopment pro Gram in Indianapolis that has turned the City into an economic Success Story one of the few in the he was first elected to the Senate in defeating incumbent Vance he is publicly perceived As a Middle the Road although his voting re Cord would give the new right Little Lugar concedes that friends and advisers read press accounts which describe me As grim and serious and wooden and they say you have got to change that everybody wants you to be Loose and and i understand he but i handle things As Best 1 can without a great Deal of attention As to How things arc Blacks in new York Telmet photo Charles Rangel of new York a photo Mickey Lei by Judi Hasson United press International Twenty years after passage of the civil rights Blacks in Congress Are gaining More Power and moving into broader issues direct result of their increasing seniority in the nations while the number of Black lawmakers decreased by one in the last there Are now 20 members of the including five heading powerful we have a substantial achievement and clearly a new level of Power among Black lawmakers on Capitol said Marguerite Ross a political scientist at City University of new Blacks in key positions include Augustus Haw senior member of the group who Heads the labor and education committee Parren chairman of the Small business committee Ronald chairman of the District of Columbia committee and Julian chair Man of the ethics in John Heads the subcommittee on criminal Dellums Heads a powerful armed services subcommittee on military in and Harold Heads a ways and Means subcommittee on Public assistance and unemployment two Black congressmen also head special committees Charles Heads the select com Mittee on narcotics abuse and control and Mickey More Page 14 the stars and stripes Texa Heads the select committee on Hun t but the most powerful of the group is William who lined up the votes this year to become chairman of the House budget i dont think Blacks have been More powerful at any previous period of said Georgia govern ment professor at Howard Blacks did not break the congressional color Barrier until 1870 in the pos civil War reconstruction in the Century since there have been 59 Blacks in three in the Senate and 56 in the with the explosion of the civil rights move ment in the More Blacks were elected to con and in 1969 the congressional Black caucus was founded to represent the interests of but there has not been a Black in the Senate since Edward a Massachusetts left office in he is the Only Black to win a Senate seat since and Only a few congressmen including Adam Clayton Powell who served in Congress 24 and Charles who left Congress in 1980 following a conviction in Kickback achieved the kind of visibility that Many Black Congress men have but in the last 10 Black congressmen and experts in the fitful say Black legislators have shifted and expanded their interests beyond those issues strictly affecting Black May i think theres been a substantial said Haw first elected in 1962 from a District that is 40 percent the change is due not Only to our increase in num Bers but also to the fact that Many members through seniority gained Pivotal positions in the Hawkins said Black congressmen Are now playing important roles in such areas As macroeconomic Trade problems and International the enlargement of interests has expanded in the last few years from the specific Issue of civil Haw Kins emerging interests have broaded the Outlook to make it International in at the same Hawkins said there has been a retrenchment As Black congressmen Battle the administration Over civil Rangel said the issues that brought the congressional Black caucus together 15 years ago have not gone but he said there has been a dramatic expansion into other interests that include not Only foreign but such critical topics As tax with Black congressmen also holding a number of important subcommittee Howard University persons Points out that Blacks Are moving to Ward being even More influential in they Black congressmen seem to have changed their perception of their role visa is the Black comm she when they came into they Felt like they represented the entire Black they Haven abandoned that role but they Are More concerned now about broader up photo Augustus Hawkins has a Strong committee the stars and stripes Page 15
