Ford urges urgent national energy program after House defeat
President Ford met with House leaders after the House rejected a gasoline tax hike and backed higher import quotas. He urged a comprehensive national energy plan combining conservation with increased domestic supplies to cut oil imports and move toward energy self sufficiency by 1985.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
House
White House
America
Ron Nessen
Nelsen
Carl Albert
Thomas
Tip’’ O'Neill
al Ullman
Ways and Means Committee
Nelson A. Rockefeller
GOP
John J. Rhodes
Ullman
Oval Office
Yitzhak Rabin
Altman
Arkansas
Bill Alexander
D-Ark
Ultman
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
D-Mass
Senate
FTC charges Hertz Avis and National monopolized airport car rentals
The Federal Trade Commission accuses Hertz Avis and National of monopolizing airport car rentals, fixing prices, blocking new entrants, and forging ad subsidies with Ford Chrysler and GM. In 1973 they earned $1.16 billion and controlled 96 percent of airside rentals. A hearing is set for July 30 to address possible remedies.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Trade Commission Today
Hertz, Avis
National
FTC
Hertz
RCA Corp
Avis
International Telephone and Telegraph Corp
Household Finance Corp
National Car Rental
J.W. James
Esmen
Killer African bees threaten North America spread
UPI reports millions of aggressive African killer bees are advancing from Brazil through Argentina and into South America. Officials say they may reach the United States within seven to ten years and have already killed about 200 people and thousands of animals.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
South American
North America
Brazil
Argentina
Bolivia
French Guiana
United States
Mexico
Brazilian Agriculture Ministry
Warwick Estevao Kerr
School of Medicine
Ribeirao Preto
Sao Paulo
Africa
Europe
Kerr
Sexual revolution hits Russia in state survey
The Nash Sovremennik survey notes premarital sex and extramarital affairs rising in Leningrad among students and workers. It cites high illegitimate births, quick-divorce rates, and growing family instability as the Soviet birth rate declines.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Nash Sovremennik
Leningrad
Perm
Ural Mountains
Hope rises for captive students held in Zaire
An intermediary said efforts to free two American students and a Dutch woman held by Marxist guerrillas in Zaire are moving at a delicate stage. The hostages Carrie Hunter Kenneth Smith Emilie Bergman and Barbara Smuts remained alive and well in a jungle hideout near Kigoma after a nighttime raid.
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Nairobi
Kenya
UPI
Zaire
Peter Steiner
Burundi
Africa
Steiner
University of Michigan
Britain Starts North Sea Oil Pumping At Argyll Field
Britain opened the valve on the Argyll Field off Scotland to begin North Sea oil flow. By day’s end 2,000 tons had been pumped as Britain moves toward self sufficiency, with shipments and gasoline slated to follow in the coming weeks.
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UPI
Britain
North Sea
Scottish
Argyll
Edinburgh
Thames Estuary
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