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Eugene S. Pulliam, the Star's assistant publisher, reluctantly acknowledges that there are limits to a newspaper's role in battling corruption. "Our reporters are getting pretty damn frustrated," he says. "We are convinced that there are crooks there. But we can't subpoena, we can't grant immunity, and we can't indict. All we can do is report...
Editors and publishers are not laughing. Some news executives indeed agree that biased liberals bent on vengeance are using Watergate to bring down an old foe. That is the view, for instance, of Eugene C. Pulliam (Arizona Republic, Phoenix Gazette, Indianapolis Star), Franklin B. Smith (Burlington, Vt, Free Press) and William Loeb (Manchester, N.H., Union Leader...
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...
...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...