Word: gurney
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida candidates is which one has the most energy. Democrat Richard Stone, 46, gathered no moss when he rolled through the state's 67 counties in a breathtaking 15 days. Republican Jack Eckerd, 61, is almost as fast. In the contest to replace G.O.P. Senator Edward Gurney, the member of the Senate Watergate Committee who is now under indictment for conspiracy, bribery and lying to a grand jury, Eckerd has a huge recognition edge. His is a familiar household name, since one of his 422 drugstores can be found in almost every town throughout the state...
Last spring a county grand jury indicted Gurney on a related misdemeanor charge; the indictment was later dismissed by a local judge as "fatally defective." But a federal grand jury got help when Larry E. Williams, a former Gurney aide, pleaded guilty to income tax evasion and agreed to testify against the Senator. The grand jury heard enough evidence to charge Gurney with seven felonies, including one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., bribery and accepting unlawful compensation, and four counts of perjury. His two aides and the two helpful HUD officials were also indicted, as were...
...Trusting. Gurney denies the charges. Blaming Williams for illegal fund raising, Gurney says he was "careless and unobservant and too trusting." The day before the indictments were handed down, he mailed off his qualifying papers for September's primary, but he may well withdraw. His trial is not expected to begin-and will not be completed-before the primary...
Paula Hawkins, 47, the only woman on the state's public service commission, is being urged by fellow Republicans to file for the primary. Another probable candidate is Gurney's former law partner Louis Frey Jr., 40, now a Representative from Orlando. In largely Democratic Florida, any Republican will face a tough fight in November against the winner of the Democratic primary, for which nine candidates have filed. In any case, Gurney seems politically finished...
...papers should play a forceful role in the communities they serve. The Philadelphia Inquirer, once a model of police-blotter journalism, has become an important voice in local issues since Knight took it over in 1969. And in Florida the bribery and perjury charges lodged against Senator Edward Gurney last week were a direct result of dogged reporting by Knight's Miami Herald...