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Republican Senator Edward J. Gurney, President Nixon's most frequent defender on the Senate Watergate committee, has been running for re-election in Florida under the cloud of a scandal of his own. He was indicted in April for violating a Florida election law by not naming a campaign treasurer or setting up a special bank account. The charge involved funds, reportedly as much as $400,000, raised on Gurney's behalf from building contractors seeking influence with the Federal Housing Authority. But last week a Leon County judge, Charles McClure, dismissed the indictment as "fatally defective...
...that the indictment was "so vague and indefinite that it misled the defendant in the preparation of his defense." Further, McClure said, the grand jury received "highly improper and prejudicial" legal advice from one witness. As a final touch, the judge ruled that the section of the law that Gurney was supposed to have violated was unconstitutional...
...beginning." But its dismissal did not end his troubles. Florida Attorney General Robert Shevin said that he would urge the Leon County prosecutor to appeal the decision. Moreover, a federal grand jury in Jacksonville is still investigating allegations of widespread bribery and kickbacks to politicians from Florida contractors. Gurney spent two days testifying before that grand jury last week...
That was when the group's faculty adviser, H. Stuart Hughes, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, decided to run for the Senate as an Independent peace candidate--the first of the 1960s. Tocsin members and other Harvard students formed much of Hughes's campaign staff. At first, things went surprisingly well. Hughes got more than twice the 73,000 signatures he needed to make the ballot, and he and his supporters forced his two opponents--Edward M. Kennedy '54, whom the liberals who backed Hughes regarded as an administration stooge with few principles or abilities, and George Cabot...
...Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy looking into Bebe Rebozo's Florida finances...