US senator Richard Lugar (R) with co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative Sam Nunn. (Reuters pic) WASHINGTON: Centrist Republican Richard Lugar, a soft-spoken foreign policy powerhouse who championed nuclear nonproliferation during 36 years in the US Senate, died on Sunday at age 87.
The Lugar Center, a Washington-based nonprofit, said in a statement that he died peacefully at the Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute in Virginia due to complications from CIDP, a chronic neurological disorder.
Lugar, a professorial Midwesterner known for his keen intellect and mild demeanour, served eight years as mayor of Indianapolis starting in 1968 …read more
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