Richard Lugar Is Dead

Washington Post: “Richard Lugar, a six-term Indiana senator who became one of the foremost voices on U.S. foreign policy — championing efforts to end apartheid in South Africa, oust Philippine strongman Ferdinand Marcos and secure the former Soviet Union’s weapons of mass destruction — and whose primary defeat in 2012 by a tea party candidate shocked the political establishment, died. He was 87.”

“The cause was complications from chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, a neurological disorder.”