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Public Shock. The story posed another kind of problem for Star Publisher Eugene C. Pulliam, 84, and his son Eugene S., 59, assistant publisher of both the Star and the Indianapolis News. For six years their conservative papers have firmly backed Republican Mayor Richard Lugar, and the exposé came just as Lugar was launching a senatorial campaign against Democratic Incumbent Birch Bayh, a Pulliam target...
...Star did hold up publication for two months so that the FBI could look into the evidence for possible federal violations. Despite the embarrassment to Lugar, the younger Pulliam decided the story could wait no longer. "It's more important," he told Star Managing Editor Bob Early, "to clean up a corrupt police department than to worry about winning an election...
...public shock at the series spread, Lugar defensively pointed out the difference between an anonymous tipster and a grand-jury witness. He said citizens had sometimes brought him charges similar to those running in the Star. "When I've asked them to testify under oath before the Marion County grand jury," he complained, "many disappear." But Lugar's problem did not. Questions about police corruption began popping up at speeches given well outside Indianapolis, and Lugar decided to deal with the issue at home. He formed a seven-man committee to study the police department, began interviewing some...
...Lugar readily admits that the Star series goaded him into action. Despite the police department's success at solving homicide cases and curbing violent crime, corruption in the force has been an open Secret in Indianapolis for years. Lugar says that "in my six years we've removed ten people from the police department, and this is not an easy thing to do." The Star has made it easier for the mayor, and Assistant Publisher Pulliam thinks that the series may even boost Lugar's election chances: "It has given him name recognition he never had before...
...mail fraud and is on trial in the state of Washington for allegedly taking improper fees from public utilities. The Democrats reduced the Republican majority in the New Jersey state senate and won control of the assembly by a one-vote margin. In Indianapolis, popular Republican Mayor Richard Lugar was re-elected with substantial black support after his Democratic opponent waged a demagogic antibusing campaign...