Word: duncan
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Saturday, 10 a.m. Dayton "Donuts" Duncan, press secretary to New Hampshire Gov. Hugh Gallen, is handling the press. Dressed in his imitation Jody Powell suit, chomping on an imitation Jody Powell cigar, looking in all respects like Jody Powell, he is cool. He can form and he can dodge. A badly phrased question comes his way. "Do you plan on mass arrest this weekend?" Duncan smiles, puffs. "I don' plan on getting arrested at all," he says. How cool is Dayton Duncan...
David Douglas Duncan...
There may be no outright fuel shortages this winter. Since April the Administration has been pressing petroleum companies to build up stocks, and now they have stored 217 million bbl., vs. 207 million bbl. at this time last year. As a result, Energy Secretary Charles Duncan last week said that the Government will stop its three-month-old program of paying $5-per-bbl. subsidies for imports of foreign heating oil refined in the Caribbean. This was an ill-conceived scheme that enraged Europeans, who charged that Washington was forcing up the price of heating fuel worldwide...
With resentments rising, the Department of Energy last week opened hearings into the familiar but unsubstantiated charges of heating-oil profiteering by refiners, even as a group of 15 Senators, led by New York Republican Jacob Javits and New Jersey Democrat Harrison Williams, was urging Duncan to reinstate heating-oil price controls. The restrictions were lifted in 1976, but can be reimposed by Executive order at any time; the Administration's resistance to such controls could weaken as the 1980 election campaign heats...
...Premier discussed these issues with several senators, including Sen. Henry Jackson (D-Wash.) and Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho), when he visited in Washington this week. He also met with Charles R. Duncan, the new secretary of energy...