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...major source of political parties' funds-but rather the favors the oilmen allegedly got for them. Whether the companies can clear themselves depends largely on the eventual testimony of Industrialist Vincenzo Cazzaniga, who until two years ago headed both Unione Petrolifera and Exxon's local subsidiary Esso Italiana. A warrant for his arrest has been issued, but he is now on a business trip abroad. Cazzaniga is specifically charged with having distributed about $2 million to politicians in 1972 to make sure that the state electric company would keep using oil-fired generating plants rather than nuclear facilities...
...tough and durable old tiger. If the ultimate test of any organization is ability to grow and prosper amid wrenching changes, no organization has been more successful than Exxon. For 111 years, the business that has been variously known as the Standard Oil Trust, Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey), Esso and now Exxon has survived wars, expropriations, brutalizing competition, muckraking attacks and even dismemberment by the U.S. Supreme Court (in 1911). It has not only survived but has also grown -from a refinery in Cleveland to a global behemoth that sells petroleum in more than 100 countries through some...
...bring up oil from the Arctic tundra, the Arabian deserts, the Gulf of Mexico and Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo. Gasoline, jet fuel and heating oil are distilled from the crude at refineries in Benicia, Calif., Rotterdam, Ras Tanura in Saudi Arabia, and Singapore. Pumps blazoning the names Exxon or Esso (still widely used outside the U.S.) dispense gasoline in Canadian fishing villages, Zaire jungle outposts and along war-torn roads in Viet...
Until the Arab embargo, South Vietnamese forces never had to worry about where that oil might come from. When the Americans were in residence, Vietnamese units drew their supplies from U.S. depots. Afterward the U.S. Defense Fuel Supply Center contracted with Esso and Shell in Singapore and Caltex in Saudi Arabia for shipments to the same depots, now under local management. But early in November the Saudis warned that Singapore's refineries might be cut off from Arab crude if the refineries continued to fulfill U.S. military contracts-and that included fuel ordered for America's allies. Rather...
Considering how easily Samuelson, the general manager of Esso's Campana refinery, was kidnaped, foreign executives had reason to worry. Eight E.R.P. terrorists burst into the club run by Esso for employees of its Campana plant, 50 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. They headed straight for the table where Samuelson sat lunching with friends. Six other kidnapers, who had earlier infiltrated the club, quickly rose from their tables to help shove the American into a getaway car. Several days later a photograph was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers by the E.R.P. showing a nervous Samuelson posed in front...