Word: buys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...newly seized territory. Meeting under the leadership of Richard Oakes, 27, a Mohawk who attends San Francisco State College, they discussed, among other things, the legality of their occupation and a center for native American studies that they intend to establish on the island. The Indians are willing to buy Alcatraz from the U.S. Their offer: "$24 in glass beads and red cloth, a precedent set by the white man's purchase of a similar island about 300 years...
...expedients to reduce its embarrassingly large holdings of foreign money and avoid a yen revaluation, which would raise Japanese export prices. For example, the government has increased the amount of foreign currency that Japanese firms can invest overseas without specific permission. So far, speculators have shown no tendency to buy yen in anticipation of a boost in its official value. But moneymen foresee a distinct possibility that speculation will soon begin...