Notable Kent State grand jury testimony and political clues
Dr. Robert White testified for two hours before a federal grand jury investigating the Kent State shootings, declining to discuss his remarks. Separate accounts note Hughes-backed checks instructed to be filled, and Hardin’s affidavit challenges the administration’s stance on milk price supports amid tied dairy campaign concerns.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Robert White
Kent State University
White
Washington
Nixon
Agriculture
Clifford Hardin
Hardin
Petroleum refiners to be audited by federal task force
Energy Chief William E. Simon announced a joint FEO IRS audit of the price profit and supply records of all 140 U S refiners. The review aims to ensure price increases reflect costs not profits and to verify refinery inventories and crude oil and product supplies. A 35-agent team will conduct audits at corporate offices with field reviews of major refiners controlling about 90 percent of capacity.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Austin
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Texas
Washington (Ap
William E. Simon
Federal Energy Office
Simon
Feo
American Petro
Leum Institute
United States
Kissinger heads to Mideast on new peace mission
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger sails for a Middle East trip amid talks on a military disengagement plan for the Suez Canal area. He will meet Sadat twice and Meir once and hold a news conference with William Simon to discuss the Arab oil boycott and Nixon’s February foreign ministers meeting.
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U.S
Henry Kissinger
Egypt
Anwar el-Sadat
Kissinger
Mideast
Suez Canal
Washington
Anwar Sadat
Golda Meir
Israel
William Simon
Nixon
Jerusalem
Cairo
Disappearing Kohoutek still comet of century
Cambridge expert Dr. Brian Marsden says Kohoutek may still be the comet of the century though expectations of a horizon-spanning display fade. He notes comets are highly unpredictable and Kohoutek’s brightness could vary as it travels near the sun.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Colonial Farms
Star Chef
Oxford Corp
Oxford
Kohoutek
Cambridge
Mass
Brian Marsden
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Marsden
Lubos Kohoutek
Hamburg
West Germany
Bread price scare debunked by USDA official
Assistant Agriculture Secretary Carroll G. Brunthaver called the baker forecast that bread could hit $1 a loaf by spring irrational. He said wheat would need to reach $60 a bushel for a one-pound loaf, and opposed export controls while noting current wheat futures around $5.80 a bushel. The American Bakers Association warned of shortages if exports aren’t curbed. Brunthaver rejected discussion of export controls at this time.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Asst
Agriculture
Carroll G. Brunthaver
American Bakers Association
Brunthaver
Refined oil imports near September level
The United States imported 2.6 million barrels per day of crude oil in the week ending January 4, 1.6 million bpd below the September level. This compares with 4.2 million bpd for the week ending November 2 after the Arab embargo was announced. Refinery products imports stay near September levels, suggesting Arab oil may still reach via foreign refineries.
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Washington
United States
American Petroleum Institute
Holifield Blames Oil Shortage Manipulation For High Profits
Los Angeles AP Rep. Chet Holifield charges the Nixon administration buffers rationing to let oil firms gouge Americans. He cites third quarter 1973 profits rising as Gulf 91 percent Exxon 81 percent Mobil 65 percent and Standard Oil of California 51 percent Texaco 48 percent. He urges per car gas allocation and warns mandatory rationing is needed for justice.
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Los Angeles
Chet Holifield
House Committee On Government Operations
Holifield
D-Calif
California
Tom Bradley
Gulf
Exxon
Mobil
Standard Oil of
Texaco
Nations of world begin gas rationing
The world moves toward gasoline rationing as Europe tightens supplies. Sweden, Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark implement or prepare limits. Britain distributed coupons. Italy and France show limited measures. Germany suspends weekend driving bans, while Switzerland and Austria discuss future steps amid rising prices.
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London
Sweden
Norway
Netherlands
Switzerland
Italy
Austria
Europe
Denmark
Britons storm gates of late running trains
London commuters faced a three day work week as wage disputes slashed Southern Region train service. Miners refused overtime driving coal shortages, while London crowds braved bomb threats and gaslit shopping to cope with the city’s energy crisis.
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London
George
Waterloo Station
Guildford
Goslow
Locomotive Engineer's Union
Southern Region
Chert
Britain
Skylab astronauts hunt energy sources from sun and Earth
Skylab 3 astronauts Carr Pogue and Gibson study the sun and Earth to locate untapped energy. They view solar activity and photograph sunspots while surveying potential petroleum and geothermal sites across the United States, South America, Africa and the Far East. Radar imaging may reveal reservoirs as several oil companies use earlier Skylab data.
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Gerald P. Carr
William R. Pogue
Edward G. Gibson
Skylab
Gibson
Earth
United States
South America
Africa
Far East
U.S
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Laredo
Tex
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At&t
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American Telephone & Telegraph Co
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Henry A. Kissinger
Middle East
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William Sloan Brown
Tom Boardman
France
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