Jackson pledges oil probe
Senator Henry M. Jackson announced a Senate study group will examine federal tax preferences for oil and gas exploration after FTC staff alleged these policies favor major producers and harm competition. The report urges review of depletion allowances and other credits, ties to vertical integration, and calls for completing the North Slope pipeline to boost domestic supplies.
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Washington
Henry M. Jackson
Senate
Eas
Federal Trade Commission
PTC
Bureau of Competition
Jackson
Washington Democrat
National Fuels and Energy Policy
FTC
North Slope
Maska
United States
Eden
Commission
Florida Sues 18 Oil Firms Over Gas Shortage
Florida files a federal class action against 18 major U S oil companies charging illegal monopoly and restraint of trade. The suit demands removal of crude oil exploration and development from firms in the retail gas market to restore competition. Names Exxon Texaco Gulf Mobil Standard Oil Shell Atlantic-Richfield Phillips Continental Sun Union Cities Service and Marathon among defendants.
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Tallahassee
Pia
SULT
Gil
Shevin
Dearing
Exxon Corp
New Jersey
Taxaco Inc
Delaware
Gulf Oil Corp
Pennsylvania
Mobil Oil Corp
Standard Oil Co
California
Indiana
Shell Oil Co
Atlantic-Richfield Co
Phillips Petroleum Co
Continental Oil Co
Sun Oil Co
Union Co
Cities Service Co
Ohio
Marathon Oil Co
Bahamas Become New Nation At Midnight
Nassau Bahamas reports the Bahamas become the world's newest nation at 12:01 a.m. with Prime Minister Lynden C Pindling to hoist a new flag in Clifford Park. The ceremony includes Prince Charles U S Interior Secretary Morton and Raul Roa and guests from 50 nations as independence from Britain ends 300 years of colonial rule.
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Nassau
Bahamas
Christopher Columbus
Cays
Lynden C. Pindling
Clifford Park
Britain
Prince Charles
Elizabeth II
U.S
Rogers C.B. Morton
Raul Roa
Pindling
House of Assembly
United Bahamian Party
Progressive Liberal Party
Trown
Sir John Paul
Jamaica
Martin Luther
Tanaka's party wins big in Tokyo Assembly race
Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's Liberal Democratic Party captured 51 of 125 seats to lead the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly, while the Japan Communist Party rose to 24 seats amid urban issues such as housing, inflation, and traffic.
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Tokyo
UPI
Kakuei Tanaka
Liberal Democratic Party
Tokyo Metropolitan
Tanaka
Japan Communist Party
Iraq reports 13 more executed in failed coup plot
Baghdad radio announced 13 more men were shot for the attempted coup led by security chief Col Nazim Kassar. The executions bring total announced since July 1988 Baath Socialist takeover to 130, with Bakr approving sentences and Samirrai identified as master planner.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Nazim Kassar
Baghdad
Kazzar
Ahmed Hassan al Bakr
Baath
Iran
Baghdad Radio
Bakr
Abdulkhalek Samirrai
Baath Party
International Command
Samirrai
Bakr Ant
Saddam — Hussein Takrili
Fourteen groups urge end to funds for minor sterilization
Fourteen women’s religious and population control groups urge Congress to bar federal funds for sterilizing minors amid Alabama case and a $1 million suit. They call for strict nationwide prohibitions on minor sterilization while supporting informed adult choice and noting federal supervision risks.
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Washington
CPT
Montgomery County
Alabama
Congress
Family Planning Services and Population Research Act
American Ethical Union
American Humanists Association
Church of the Brethren
Church Women United
Citizens Committee On Population and the American Future
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of Negro, Women
National Organization For Women
National Women’s Political Caucus
Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship
United Church of Christ's Division of Health and Welfare
United Methodist Board of Church and Society
Women’s Equity Action League
Nine Story Balloon Breaks Free In New York Test Flight
A nine story tall balloon, the Yankee Zephyr, broke loose from moorings during helium filling in western New York, four lines disconnected, sending a 500 pound nylon bag aloft. The gondola was not connected and no passengers were aboard. It descended about a quarter mile from Lincklaen resident Elizabeth Waldron, who reported the sighting to sheriff's deputies.
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Lincelaen
N.Y
UPI
New York State
Elizabeth Waldron
Lincklaen
Sheriff's Deputies
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