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...Alberts, the publisher of a newspaper and a magazine that were, in reality, secretly funded government publications; the report implies that the publisher's use of the money points "to theft and fraud." Recounting previous charges that $10 million in government funds went to Michigan Publisher John McGoff in an unsuccessful attempt to take over the Washington Star in 1974, the commission charged that the South African government had never been able to account for $6.3 million of that sum. McGoff insisted that he had no South African backing in any of his business ventures...
There are perhaps only two conspicuous examples of old-fashioned "press-lording" left. The political venom in William Loeb's Manchester Union Leader skews New Hampshire's politics, and even the state's closely watched presidential primary. In Michigan, John P. McGoff fired two editors in his small right-wing chain when they refused to give front-page play to a couple of vicious anti-Carter stories. Last week the government of South Africa admitted that it made available $11.5 million from a secret slush fund in 1974 during McGoff s unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington...
...Mostert's report does not touch on the alleged attempt to purchase the Washington Star. As described by the Daily Mail, the department in 1976 "loaned" $11.5 million from the slush fund to Michigan Publisher John P. McGoff, who is co-owner with Eschel Rhoodie and Mulder of a large farm in the Transvaal, to finance a $26.3 million offer for the paper. Joe Allbritton, the Texan who owned the newspaper from 1974 until he sold it to Time Inc. this year, denies that McGoff ever approached him. McGoff, whose Panax Corp. publishing company acknowledges bidding for the Star...