Syn-fuel funding shift for Great Plains plant faces scrutiny
Washington urged Synfuels to rethink aid for the Beulah North Dakota project as federal price supports were revived amid White House and congressional pressure. Great Plains Gasification Associates, including Tenneco and American Natural Resources, seeks price guarantees totaling about $2 billion to prop up a 125 million cu ft daily synthetic gas plant, with operations slated for late 1984.
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Washington
White House
Congress
Synthetic Fuels Corp
America
Great Plains
North Dakota
Beulah
Wn.d
Falling
Michael Brogan
Great Plains Gasification Associates
Mike Synar
D-Okla
House
Energy
SFC
Tenneco Inc
American Natural Resources Co
Transco Energy Co
Mid-Con
Hodel
Jeffrey Lipkin
Daggett
Calif
Pentagon panelists promote their own interests
A congressional investigating committee finds Pentagon advisory boards stacked with business executives who push their companies. The report calls for new Defense Department guidelines to remove conflicts of interest across Army Navy and Air Force boards including the Defense Science Board. It notes profits for firms like Hughes TRW General Dynamics Raytheon and GE and cites an old-boy network within the military industrial complex.
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Washington
Congressional
Pentagon
House Committee On Government Operations
Defense Department
Army
Navy
Air Force
Associated Press
Defense Science Board
General Accounting Office
Grumman Aerospace
General Electric
General Dynamics
Raytheon
Hughes Aircraft
Hughes
GAO
TRW Inc
Richard DeLauer
Defense For Research and Engineering
TRW
Fossil finds in Kenya may trace human ape ancestry
Scientists announce 17 million year old fossils from Buluk in northern Kenya may be the ancestral bridge between humans and great apes. Led by Richard Leakey and Alan Walker, the finds include jaws and teeth linking Africa to Asia during early ape evolution.
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Washington
Kenya
National Geographic Society
Buluk
Richard Leakey
National Museums of Kenya
Alan Walker
Johns Hopkins University
Meave Leakey
Coleader
David Pilbeam
Harvard University
Africa
Asia
Pilbeam
Walker
Foat to form legal aid group for women victims
Feminist Ginny Foat says she will create a fund raising tour to support a legal services organization aiding working and battered women, those behind bars, and female discrimination victims after her murder trial costs are paid. She criticizes NOW leadership while planning the effort.
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Sacramento
Calif
Ginny Foat
Ms. Foat
California
National Organization For Women
New Orleans
Louisiana
NOW
Legal Services Organization
Ms. Feat
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Idaho
Senate Energy Committee
Jim Wright
Texas
Synfuels
Edward Noble
Noble
Reagan
White House of Congress
All But
Pacific Lighting Co
Jack Brooks
D-Texas
House Government Operations Committee
Brooks
Foat
National Jury Project
Berkeley
Sheffield
Sheffield Lake
Chamber of Commerce of
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American Airlines
Haggar Shop
Midway Mall
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