Cautious bids total 438 million for offshore oil leases
Oil firms bid only on about one third of 231 offered tracts along Southern California coast totaling 438.2 million, far below government hopes of 1.5 billion. Interior officials blamed environmental opposition and policy hurdles while noting industry risk in deep water drilling.
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Los Angeles
California
Virgin Tracts
Interior Department
Department
United States
America
Ford sticks to spending limit on tax cut plan
President Ford pressed for a spending ceiling tied to any tax cut, offering a compromise to lower the tax cut to 17 billion with a higher spending ceiling. Senators Muskie Long Bellman and Curtis met with Ford in the White House to discuss a possible override if Congress passes a bill without a spending cap.
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Washington
Ford
White House
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Russell Long
D-La
Henry Bellman
R-Okla
Carl Curtis
Rneb
Senate
Long
Muskie
Budget Committee
Butte to Host 50 Million MHD Test Facility
Congress approves 1976 funding for national MHD program with 29.5 million dollars plus 7.8 million for a transition quarter. Butte’s Industrial Park will host a 50 million dollar Component Development and Integration Test Facility with 37.344 million dollars earmarked for it. Construction begins April with a January 1978 target completion. Sen. Mike Mansfield says ERDA funds will start construction and broaden nationwide MHD research and development efforts.
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Butte
Mike Mansfield
Montana Standard
Congress
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
Montana
Mansfield
Senate House
Department of Interior
MHD Institute
MHD
Kidnapped Detroit banker found dead in Ohio woods
The body of James J. Crawford, kidnapped from Detroit, was found along an isolated Licking County road northeast of Newark. He had been stabbed about 23 times and died after a struggle. Three suspects, including Sharon Scheurell, 24, were arrested. autopsy to determine time of death.
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Newark
Ohio
Detroit
James J. Crawford
FBI
Licking County
Crawford
Max Marston
National Bank of Detroit
Sharon Scheurell
Columbus
Licking
George A. Gressle
Gressle
Marston
Indiana
Dayton
John S. Garsides
William Nabozny
Dearborn
Mich
Hoffa witness jailed for contempt in Detroit grand jury
Stephen Andretta, 40, a Teamsters Local 560 official from Union City New Jersey, was jailed after refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating James R. Hoffa's disappearance. A Newark search for Hoffa's body targets Moscato's Dump near Jersey City based on informant tips.
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Detroit
James R. Hoffa
Stephen Andretta
Little Ferry
N.J
Teamsters
Union City
Newark
Hoffa
Moscato
Jersey City
U.S
New Jersey
U.S. District Court
Ralph Freeman
Andretta
Robert C. Ozer
Organized Crime
Grand Jury
Levi outlines rules for FBI conduct
Justice Department drafts guidelines to curb FBI domestic investigations unless there is an immediate risk to human life or a likelihood of violent or illegal activity. Attorney General Levi tells the Senate Intelligence Committee that future actions require AG approval and would review domestic intelligence operations. Critics call the draft vague and question its enforceability versus presidential orders.
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Washington
Justice Department
FBI
Atty
Edward H. Levi
Levi
Senate Intelligence Committee
Congress
Walter F. Mondale
United States
Mondale
Woodahl says special prosecutors not under Supreme Court probe
Montana Attorney General Robert Woodahl announced none of his special prosecutors is under state Supreme Court Commission on Practice scrutiny. Powell County Attorney James Masar later said he cleared one Woodahl aide of witness tampering accusations as the commission weighs grand jury fraud bribery and kickback allegations tied to the Workers' Compensation Division.
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Helena
Robert Woodahl
State Supreme Court
Commission On Practice
Powell County Atty
James Masar
Woodahl
William R. Boone
Missoula
Commission
Lewis and Clark County Grand Jury
Grand
Workers’ Compensation Division
Grand Jury
Woodah
Missoula bars face gambling license revocations and suspensions
The Missoula City County Gambling Commission revoked the license of Red's Bar and the dealer license of Tex Stanley, suspended Silver Dollar, Curly's and Connie's Lounge licenses until Jan 1, and barred Trail's End Bar from keno or poker for two months after FBI raids across several Montana cities. The U.S. attorney plans a federal grand jury to weigh charges against five men, three from Missoula.
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Missoula
Missoula City-County
Trail’s End
Montana
Butte
Helena
Bozeman
Billings
Anaconda
U.S
Tex Stanley
Missoula County
Robert L. Deschamps III
Deschamps
FTC judge orders halt to egg heart claim ads
An FTC judge ruled the National Commission on Egg Nutrition and its agency must stop promotional claims eggs are not hazardous to heart health. The ruling targets NCEN funded by the industry and its advertising campaign begun after 1971 to push favorable egg health messaging.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Ernest G. Barnes
National Commission On Egg Nutrition
NCEN
Park Ridge
Richard Weiner, Inc
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Richard M. Nixon
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Nixon
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Montana Tech
Beef Trail
New
Columbia Gardens
Frank Church
Didaho
FTC
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