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For two weeks, agog, San Franciscans have watched a pyrotechnic display of headlines with homosexuality becoming, for the first time, the focal issue of a major city election. And, to the surprise of all concerned, a vicious, opportunist, Trojan Horse attack on homosexuals has backfired, hurting only the witchhunter and his hapless followers.

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by dal mcintire

Russell Wolden, candidate for Mayor, last-minute Democrat and longtime County Assessor, fired off his smear campaign Oct. 7th in the San Francisco PROGRESS, a neighborhood throwaway paper. Underthe headline: "SEX DEVIATES MAKES S.F. HEADQUARTERS." Wolden sounded a rallying call for sexual vigilantes. Aquiver with McCarthyish moral indignation, he charged incumbent Mayor George Christopher with providing so hos-

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