Alaska native firm seeks Saudi backing for offshore bids
Koning Inc a native corporation under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act seeks Saudi financial backing to qualify and bid on offshore oil leases in the Kodiak Island area. The move comes as foreign backing may support bids while OCS rules do not bar such arrangements. authorities note Kodiak holds about 2.4 billion barrels of oil and 17.5 trillion cubic feet of gas with earlier Gulf of Alaska bids reaching about 500 million.
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Robert Weller
Associated Press
Anchorage
Alaska
Saudi Arabia
United States
Koning Inc
Harry Carter
Koning
Pany
OCS
Carter
Connie Wasink
Kodiak
Gulf of Alaska
Taxwriters weigh rebates by income in Carter plan
Congress weighing alternatives to President Carter's stimulus plan includes trimming rebates for those earning 25 000 to 35 000 and boosting aid for lower income groups. Ways and Means eyes extending current tax cuts through 1978 while non tax items are handled by other committees.
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Washington
Congress
Carter
Congressional
House
Ways and Means Committee
Ford Administration
Washington Post
Carter Administration
Gerald R. Ford
Congressional Budget Office
Bell backs ban on illegal alien hiring
Attorney General Griffin B. Bell urged a nationwide law to bar employers from knowingly hiring illegal aliens. He said civil penalties would curb illegal entry by reducing economic opportunities and cited six million illegals in the US with about 500,000 new arrivals annually. Bell also proposed neighborhood justice centers to provide affordable dispute resolution and stressed robust civil rights enforcement and Voting Rights Act compliance.
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Jerry Oppenheimer
Washington Star
Washington
United States
Griffin B. Bell
Bell
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Justice Department
Mexico
Jose Lopez Portillo Bell
American Bar Association
Claims bill planned to shield machine makers
Harold J Weiler of Albuquerque vice president of the New Mexico Association of Commerce and Industry says a bill to limit physical damage claims against producers and distributors of dangerous machines will be introduced in the State Legislature. The measure would bar claims after a reasonable period of use.
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New Mexico Association of Commerce and Industry
Harold J ‘Doc’? Weiler
Albuquerque
The
Daily Record
Weiler
Weiler addresses unemployment, prices in Roswell talk
Weiler spoke in Roswell to the Southeastern New Mexico Association at the Roswell Country Club. He urged tightening unemployment compensation claims abuses to protect the reserve fund and warned current bills aim to prevent higher employer contributions. He also discussed possible natural gas price regulation.
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