TAKING A LEAD ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00965R000504680011-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 27, 2012
• Sequence Number: 11
• Publication Date: January 13, 1985
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/28: CIA-RDP90-00965 R000504680011-0
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PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
13 January 1985
Taking a lead
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WASHINGTON _ Sen. Jesse.Helms
has called Sen.'Richard Lugar, once
chat about'American foreign:policy
Recently, Helms; (R., N.C.) asked
Lugar whether three businessmen
,from Raieighi NiC., could fly here to
tell Lugar thetir'sentiments on where
the United Stags should be heading-
.internationally. Lugar (R., Ind.) met
,-with thgm for half an hour.
Why has Helms directed so much
'personal attention Lugar's way?-Like
others witha vital interest in foreign
-'-.-affair s, Helms gust wants a few words
:'With the new chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee..
Helms passed up the chance to sit
,in Lugar's chair, reluctantly honor-
ing a campaign pledge to remain as
chairman of :'the Senate Agriculture
;Committee:' Ilow Helms is watching
Lugar take the; lead on international
issues that lie"d like.to have a-hand
in as well. f _ ' ..: _
That presents Lugar with yet an-
other complication as he assumes a
post that, to` begin with, carries a re-
election jin i..The last three commit
tee chairm were voted out of their
Senate seat,-with Charles Percy; the
Illinois Republican, the latest victim.
Committee divided,
Lugar is.. taking over a: committee
that in recent years has been bitterly
-divided on major foreign, policy 'is-
;. sues and largely ineffectual as a.re- ,
on the committee will be difficult, if
:;nbt impossible, during the 99th
,,The Indiana Republican will be
;or'ced to. serve ,as an intermediary
;:foreign policy aides and a State De-
*1.partment rur -by career foreign sere
--ice officers and Secretary of State
,.George P. Shultz, a moderate.
Finally, Lugar must also contend
with his image in Congress as a
staunch. White House loyalist. Lugar
voted with President Reagan 95 per-
cent of the time in 1983; no other
member of Congress aligned himself
more closely with administration
policies. Lugar/Mll have to over-
ver
a foreign policy consensus in the
a,
committee and Congress, committee
aides say.
Lugar's willingness to follow ad-
ministratiq,policy precedes him to ,
such;an extbnt that despite his repu
'tation as a 'mail who researches ma-
jor issues thoroughly before heel
form,ssshu .opinions, he may find it
-impossible to convince committee '
Democrats that he it willing to hear
their side, the aides says^.~ .
laarly, Lugar would'like to make
the cCinmittee more visible. than it's
been in the past, but I would soe his
role As :advancing the administra-
;tion's.foreign policy as much as pos-
'sible," _ said a top Democratic
However,' turning the country in