Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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As always, Rusk has maintained his calm. "I'm just chuckling these days and leaving it all to them," he says. This time, he may well get the last chuckle. Governor Lester Maddox, who has been bitingly critical of Rusk, cannot legally alter the makeup of the board of...
Twice during November, a small band of Indians put ashore on the island of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay. Twice, U.S. officials escorted them quickly back to the mainland. It was a different story the third time. Fourscore young Indians ferried to the Rock at night, and instead of being...
Last week the Indians, now 150 strong, made it clear that they are on Alcatraz to stay. Announcing that they considered their invasion a success, the occupiers and 183 visitors, including Eskimos, Mexican Aztecs and a representative sampling of American tribesmen, gathered to make plans for governing the newly seized...
Though the Indians' offer is ironic, their purpose is serious. The takeover of Alcatraz reflects a new militance among Indians, who seek to dramatize the injustices they have endured at the hands of white America, particularly from the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs. In a bitter...
Primitive Conditions. The Indians have won many white sympathizers in the Bay Area. Local restaurants shipped in festive meals for Christmas, and cartons of donated food arrive regularly at the San Francisco Indian Center, a social headquarters for the roughly 20,000 Indians who live in the Bay Area. Still...