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During the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, Manhattan's WPIX-TV carried what seemed like an enterprising special report for a non-network local channel. WPIX News, as it proclaimed on the air at the time, presented its "Russian authority," Dr. Max J. Putzel, in "an eyewitness account from Moscow." Fact of the matter, according to a charge brought by the Federal Communications Commission last week, was that Max Putzel was a professor of German literature who happened to be a cousin of the then WPIX news producer and who, at the time of the broadcast...
...Several days before the Putzel caper, the FCC says, WPIX ran a scene identified as Prague with the subtitle "Via Satellite" when in fact it was not a satellite transmission but a dusty old film. Another night, a voice report out of Vienna was labeled as Prague. Similarly, the channel stands accused of passing off canned footage of a disturbance in a Boston high school as a later, ghetto riot...
...group of drowsy tourists left the palatial white casino in the Channel resort of Deauville early one morning last week, they were startled to see a $25,000 Lamborghini sports car in flames on the street outside. Near by were some Maseratis, a Ferrari, a Jaguar and an Iso Rivolta freshly daubed with bright red hammers and sickles...
...calculated move to help pay for the Viet Nam War-without raising taxes-the Johnson Administration in 1968 invited oil companies to lease about 453,-600 acres of federal waters for offshore oil and gas drilling in California's Santa Barbara Channel. The oilmen paid $624 million for 70 leases. But just as the Nixon Administration took office in 1969, a massive underwater blowout began slopping 1,000 bbl. of oil a day over miles of Santa Barbara's white beaches, killing marine creatures and raising a huge public outcry...
Last week President Nixon heeded the message. The President asked Congress to cancel 20 federal leases on 198,200 acres and establish a marine sanctuary in the Santa Barbara Channel. If Congress approves, the Government will compensate the oil companies for the 20 leases by selling crude oil from its federal reserve near Bakersfield, Calif. Courts will determine just how much the Government will pay. Since the area has not been fully explored, the oilmen may receive more than the $178 million they put out for the leases...