The State - News from March 15, 1988
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William Penn Mott Jr., director of the National Park Service, said he was dumbfounded when he found out that San Francisco supervisors had agreed to allow city residents to vote on whether to convert Alcatraz into a gambling casino. “I guess they (supervisors) don’t understand this is a federal park for the benefit of all the people in the United States,” he told the San Francisco Examiner. “We are unalterably opposed.” The June ballot measure urges city officials to change state and federal laws to allow for a casino on “The Rock,” a former federal prison.
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