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...officials admit that the agency was remiss in not having all its high officials make full financial disclosures. That step, the GAO says, would have revealed that 19 of the agency's 125 top employees held stock in gas-producing firms under FPC jurisdiction, including Exxon, Texaco and Tenneco. Moreover, seven of these officials were administrative-law judges who preside over cases that come before the FPC, and in at least one case, a judge apparently presided over a hearing involving a company in which he held stock...
...media," he said, "flourish under scandal, disaster, tumult in any form they can get it . . ." Further, U.S. journalism virtually alone caused the "death of the civil rights movement." Epstein rapped newsmen for the decline in the quality of presidential campaigns and objected to "those odious Exxon and Mobil...
...grandfather John D. Rockefeller created the Standard Oil Trust, becoming a billionaire in the process. Nelson and his siblings shared the inheritance of his legendary grandfather. Today the Vice President-designate's assets are widely scattered in various foundations, family trusts and securities. Aside from holdings in the Exxon Corporation, Nelson is said to own stock in the Chase Manhattan Bank, whose chairman is Brother David, although the bank's officials refuse to confirm this. Rockefeller's aides will not disclose his other holdings, but he reportedly has substantial investments in Rockefeller Center in midtown Manhattan...
Recognizing the dangers, ten Government agencies and departments-including State, Treasury and Commerce -have voiced opposition. So have the major oil companies, led by Exxon, and the farm groups, which recognize that the bill would kick up prices for their members' oil and gasoline. But their opposition pales in the face of strong lobbying by the shipbuilders and the maritime unions, which give lavish campaign contributions and generous speakers' fees to legislators...
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