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PEOPLE ON both sides of the party line are focusing attention this fall on a hot and heavy Senatorial campaign in Indiana. Indianapolis Mayor Republican Richard G. Lugar is waging an uphill battle against Democratic incumbent Birch Bayh who seeks re-election to a third term as the state's junior senator...
Both candidates have made inflation their major issue--with Lugar battering Bayh's "inflationary" voting record. Since the party primaries in June, Bayh has countered with criticism of the nugatory "Nixonomics" under the past Republican administration...
...likelihood at this point, conviction is hardly certain. Conspiracy charges are difficult to prove even in obvious cases. Still, Star executives are angry at what they view as harassment. They are also disappointed by the fact that their series has produced such meager results so far. Mayor Richard G. Lugar has brought in a new police chief and formed a citizens' committee to study the department. He has accepted many of the committee's recommendations for reform, such as establishing incompetence as a ground for dismissal. The FBI is looking into the Star's allegations...
Richard G. Lugar, 42, won election in 1967 as the first Republican mayor of Indianapolis in nearly 20 years. A former Rhodes scholar, Lugar merged the city and county governments, attracted heavy transfusions of federal funds into the Hoosier capital, and won re-election in 1971 by a 3 to 2 majority. He has long been known as "President Nixon's favorite mayor," but his star has been dimmed by Watergate and a police scandal. Lugar, who is campaigning for Democrat Birch Bayh's Senate seat, has begun to divorce himself from the President, criticizing Nixon for "sorry...
...Indianapolis, a six-month investigative effort by a team of Star reporters turned up a pattern of police corruption connected with prostitution, narcotics and stolen goods. The newspaper series caused Mayor Richard Lugar to fire the city's three top law-enforcement officials and bring in a former Secret Service officer to clean...