Price Fixing Gets Tougher Sentences From Justice Dept
The Justice Department on February 24 issued new guidelines for anti trust prosecutions aiming to deter price fixing by seeking an average prison term of 18 months for convicted businessmen. Past cases show many offenders avoid jail, averaging about one day per person for dozens of defendants.
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Washington
NEA
Justice Department
Department
Chicago
Joe Sims
Donald I. Baker
Anti-Trust
Baker
Internal Revenue Service
Anti-Trust Division
Editorials Question Energy Policy And Gas Withholding
The piece weighs the claim that oil companies withhold natural gas to push prices against the reality of an energy future crisis. It argues production boosts could avert short term shortages, but stresses long term fuel security over immediate fixes. It cites Texaco’s 500 billion cubic feet off Louisiana and debates motives, risks, and policy options.
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Texaco
Louisiana
Coupons Dominate Consumer Savings Amid Newspaper Distribution
AP analyzes the coupon boom with Americans likely to receive over 6 billion in cent off offers this year. Newspapers drive vast distribution, delivering about 74 percent of coupons, while two thirds of households show interest and 45 to 70 billion certificates are projected. Retailers and manufacturers profit from redemption, though actual returns vary by product.
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John Cunniff
AP Business Analyst
New York
A.C. Nielson Co. Clearing House
America
Dan Pratt
Pratt
Marketing Corporation of America
World Almanac Q and A Reveals 1974 Money-Winner
The quiz item asks who led money winnings in 1974 with options Secretariat Chris Evert or Jimmy Connors. It also queries the Russian blue as a cat breed and identifies the rainiest U S location. The text includes garbled characters and incomplete lines.
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Secretariat
Chris Evert
Jimmy Connors
United States
Today in History March 8 1977 Highlights and Births
On this date events include riots in St Petersburg signaling the Russian revolution in 1917 and the Stamp Act course in 1765. Notable items list Rangoon capture 1942 and Nixon secrecy order 1970, with birthdays for Cyd Charisse and Mary Lou Williams.
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Associated Press
St. Petersburg
House of Lords
Netherlands
Amsterdam
North Sea
New York
Rangoon
Burma
Soviet Union
Far East
China
Ussuri
Makarios
Cyprus
Dublin
Richard M. Nixon
Israel
Washington
Simcha Dinitz
Ford Administration
Egypt
Cyd Charisse
Mary Lou Williams
Oscar Wilde
Army Squad Structure Describes Ten-Men Team Under Staff Sergeant
An Army squad comprises ten soldiers commanded by a staff sergeant. The unit operates as a basic infantry element with defined roles and responsibilities, forming part of a larger platoon strategy.
Rhodes and ONeill clash over book ethics and ghostwriter pay
The Washington Merry-Go-Round reports John Rhodes used ghostwriter J. Brian Smith to craft a scathing book about Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Rhodes collected $8,000 in royalties while Smith, paid $31,000 by taxpayers, worked on the project during office hours. The piece questions kickback legality and notes Rhodes also profits from a public relations firm. It also critiques Carter era advisory committees, finding 61 committees and 250 units with energy industry influence and little consumer representation, costing taxpayers over $20 million annually.
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Jack Anderson
Les Whitten
Washington
House
John Rhodes
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Rhodes
Tip O'Neill
O'Neill
Massachusetts
J. Brian Smith
Smith
Smith and Harroff
Jimmy Carter
White House
Senate
Federal Power Commission
National Gas Survey
Exxon
Consolidated Edison
Congressional Office Addresses List for Texas Delegation
The record lists contact offices for Senators John Tower and Lloyd Bentsen Jr. in Washington, D.C. and for Representatives Richard C. White and Bob Krueger. It notes district office locations in El Paso Odessa Del Rio New Braunfels San Angelo San Antonio and general Washington, D.C. addresses.
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Washington
John Tower
Senate
D.C
Lloyd Bentsen Jr
Richard C. White
Rayburn
el Paso
Odessa
Bob Krueger
del Rio
New Braunfels
San Angelo
San Antonio
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Texas Press Association
World Almanac
By Gill Fox
Austin
W.E
Pete’’ Snelson
Capital Building
Texas
Dick Slack
Pecos
5Th & Cypress
State Board of Education
M.L. Brockette
Commissioners of Education
Texas Education Agency
E. 11Th St
Woodrow W. Bean
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