Petition to the Michigan State University (MSU) Board of Trustees to remove the name of Margaret Ewart McGoff from the Festival Stage of the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts and summary of reasons. The summary says John P. McGoff was involved in the South African "Muldergate" scandal, an attempt to buy major US newspapers to influence US public opinion in favor of apartheid South Africa; PANAX, McGoff's media agency, secured major interests in UPITN, a video news agency owned by UPI and Britain's ITV network, to boost South African propaganda; the FCC turned down PANAX bid to buy two TV stations in Northern Michigan because of McGoff's alleged involvement in the South African influence-peddling...
Petition to the Michigan State University (MSU) Board of Trustees to remove the name of Margaret Ewart McGoff from the Festival Stage of the Wharton Center for the Performing Arts and summary of reasons. The summary says John P. McGoff was involved in the South African "Muldergate" scandal, an attempt to buy major US newspapers to influence US public opinion in favor of apartheid South Africa; PANAX, McGoff's media agency, secured major interests in UPITN, a video news agency owned by UPI and Britain's ITV network, to boost South African propaganda; the FCC turned down PANAX bid to buy two TV stations in Northern Michigan because of McGoff's alleged involvement in the South African influence-peddling scandal; and South African probe (the Erasmus Commission) clearly links McGoff with South African plans to buy the Washington Star newspaper. The petition and summary mention MSU's principles of racial equality, McGoff's personal business interests in South Africa and his acting as an unregistered agent, a Federal Grand Jury investigation, Securities Exchange Commission (SEC), and U.S. securities law. [Note on date: the document McGoff Issue Chronology, available on this website, says on October 20, 1982 the African Students Union presented the Trustees with petitions requesting the removal of the McGoff name signed by 600 individuals and 60 organizations. That may be this petition.]
