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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1977
Page
3
The piece warns that Liberian registries and flags of convenience enable oil tankers to dodge U S wage taxes and safety standards. It cites recent East Coast spills and a Los Angeles harbor explosion as evidence of rising risk. It urges government action to restore high safety standards and reassess foreign registration of American owned ships.
The text claims Jimmy Carter reads six newspapers including The Columbus Enquirer The Maca Velograph and The Avanta Constitution along with The Washington Post The Washington Star and The New York Times. It urges his press secretary Jody Powell to subscribe to widen Carter’s access to diverse coverage.
The FCC warns of fatal electrocutions linked to antenna installation near power lines. CPSC and NSC note multiple casualties in recent years, including a father and son last year. Researchers urge professional guidance from power companies and dealers, and extreme caution near lines during windy conditions.
John Chamberlain notes that Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut governors shifted toward offshore oil and gas leasing after testimony from industry and labor leaders. Environmental hearings supported drilling but the Argo Merchant disaster Nantucket Shoals shifted opinion, threatening fisheries and beaches if winds change.
Environmentalists renewed opposition to offshore drilling citing oil must be shipped from the continental shelf to the mainland by tankers like the Argo Merchant. The piece argues Northeastern oil needs, and will get, from foreign-flag ships unless America builds its own safe merchant fleet, noting regional dependence on oil and the limits of nuclear alternatives. It cites James Schlesinger and Licht blau in the New England debate and warns against misreading the Argo Merchant incident.
Henry J. Taylor argues that Iraq's oil minister Tayeh Abdel Karim pushed for at least a 25 percent OPEC price increase as a Soviet strategy. He notes Soviet influence over Iraq, its large output share, and the broader Western aim for stable, reasonable oil prices, warning that OPEC’s effort risks self-sabotage as dominates Saudi Arabia drives policy.
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