Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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The Indians may be getting their point across. Not long after they settled in, Interior Secretary Walter Hickel took Alcatraz off the list of surplus federal property, a move Indians regard as a first step toward winning full control of the island from the U.S. Government. Last week Representative George...
There are reports that the Government may be prepared to offer the Indians some land at Fort Miley, on the mainland near the Presidio. The Indians are amenable. "But," says one, "we want Alcatraz. We'd accept all of America back if it were possible." In the meantime, they...
Joseph Alioto, son of a Sicilian fishmonger, won fortune as an antitrust lawyer and fame as mayor of San Francisco. Now he wants to run for the California governorship. In recent months, his political ambitions have been dealt two setbacks. First, Look magazine charged that he was involved with Mafia...
Alioto last week denied any illegality or impropriety and depicted the brouhaha as a Republican plot to kill off his political chances. It began in 1962, when 15 Washington State public utility districts hired State Attorney General John O'Connell and his assistant. George Faler, to manage their antitrust...