Word: mcgoff
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...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...