Dismemberment a big mistake in oil policy debate
A Maine newspaper critiques Sen. Birch Bayh’s bill to split oil majors into separate firms. It argues dismemberment risks higher home heating and fuel costs, strengthens OPEC, and harms US energy security and innovation in alternatives.
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United States Senate
Maine
Birch Bayh
Iing
United States
Middle East
OPEC
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
U.S
FBI victimized by U S Senate logic orbiting countermeasures
The Senate Intelligence Committee led by Frank Church attacks the FBI as it accuses the bureau of failing to counter extremist groups. The piece argues Congress delegated internal security to the FBI and cites weapon thefts and terrorist attacks in the early 1970s, noting a harsh media and political climate toward the agency.
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Paul Harvey
Senate Intelligence Committee
Church
FBI
Frank Church
D.-Ida
Congress
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Black Liberation Army
Atlanta
California
Huey Newton
Onelack Panther
Panthers
One
Policy for Letters To The Journal
The Journal explains letters must be signed with a street address and city or town and should not exceed about 300 words. Letters are preferred typed on one side of the paper. The Journal supports free expression of ideas and opinions but notes views are not necessarily endorsed by The Journal.
Federal actions loom over Duda and Sons migrant camps
Federal employment standards investigators report substantial violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and Farm Labor Contractor Act at A. Duda and Sons. Workers describe coercive debt–bondage conditions, excessive camp charges, and strawboss violence. Florida reform hearings drew migrant turnout. committee voted to kill the bill despite testimony.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
A. Duda and Sons
Hal Bernton
Florida
Immokelee
Fla
Duda
Ronald J James
Jack Gordon
Bernton
Tallahassee
House Agriculture
Wayne Mixon
North Carolina
New York Faces Hidden Budget Crisis Amid Federal Aid Reliance
George F. Will warns that New York City's $12.5 billion 1977 budget is overestimated by at least $255 million due to optimistic assumptions on federal aid and state funding. He notes the city must balance by 1978 and worries about contracts, strikes, and the Seasonal Financing Act's three year limit while creditors loom.
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George F. Will
New York
Compee
Abraham Beame
Dante
Virgil
Smperiy Gosiens
York City
Beame
Treasury
William Simon
Odgen Nash
Washington
Madison Square Garden
Simon
The
Washington Post Company
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William Kunstler
Russell Means
Los Angeles Times
Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
Biddeford
Saco
Journal
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Brian C. Thayer
Gladys M. Whitehouse
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