Word: fcc
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...responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission have expanded as rapidly as the industry it regulates. Established in 1934 to supervise telephone and telegraph companies and the broadcasting industry, the FCC now oversees a vast realm that includes everything from transoceanic cables to communications satellites. For more than two months, President Nixon has been searching for a new chairman to take charge of the commission's expanding responsibilities. Some time this week, the President is expected to announce his choice for the nomination: former Republican National Chairman Dean Burch...
Like most other FCC chairmen, Burch, 41, is a lawyer. He is also one of the Republican Party's most loyal workers. A wryly humorous member of the "Arizona Mafia," he served as Barry Goldwater's administrative assistant and political aide until the Senator named him party chairman during the 1964 presidential campaign. Ousted from his post by the GOP's liberal elements in 1965. Burch endeared himself to Nixon by declaring that Nixon was "one of the few contenders who emerged with honor" from the 1964 Republican debacle...
...Chairman Rosel H. Hyde, whose seven-year term expired June 30 but who agreed to remain on the job pending the appointment of his successor. The President is also expected to name Robert Wells, president and general manager of radio station KIUL in Garden City, Kans., to fill the FCC seat being vacated by Commissioner James J. Wadsworth. Because both new appointees will replace Republicans, Nixon presumably will have to wait until next summer, when Democrat Kenneth Cox's term expires, before he gains control of the seven-member commission...
Broadcasters seem generally pleased with the appointments. They theorize that Burch and Wells would bring a pro-business philosophy to the FCC, which has recently upset some TV-station owners by withholding automatic renewal of broadcast licenses. On the other hand, some liberal lawmakers, who recall Burch's heavy-handed management of Goldwater's campaign, expressed shock at his nomination. Their dismay raises a possibility that the FCC's new chairman may run into trouble before winning Senate confirmation...
...proposal meant victory for critics of the cigarette, notably the Federal Communications Commission, which earlier this year threatened to order all cigarette commercials off the air waves. Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission promised to drop their proposals for stern regulatory action if the industry could make its plan work. Utah Democrat Frank Moss, the nonsmoking Mormon who heads the consumer subcommittee and is the leading tobacco opponent in the Senate, said happily that "the dike has been broken...