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...President was at first prepared to signal his intention to sign the bill, but postponed any decision after running into vigorous opposition from Republican Congressmen. The odds are that the bill will become law, however, largely because Federal Energy Administrator Frank Zarb has recommended that Ford sign. FEA officials are concerned that otherwise Congress might take an even tougher stand, such as moving to split up the oil industry...
...tariff boost, but be unable to produce any legislation that Ford would accept. That would probably result in a political orgy of finger pointing and leave the nation with no energy policy at all. There seems to be little public opinion push for any. A private poll that the FEA has had taken regularly for the past year or so shows that a majority of those questioned would prefer even some kind of rationing to higher energy prices. But another of the poll's findings offers what could be an insight into Congress's dawdling. Of those questioned...
...FEA officials contend that they have found little evidence of criminal intent on the part of suppliers in cases settled so far. Most of the overcharges, they say, resulted from confusion and varying interpretations of the Government's complex pricing regulations. But FEA and other federal agencies are also pressing a rapidly widening hunt for possible criminal violations of the oil price controls passed by Congress in November 1973. U.S. Customs Service agents, for example, are poring over import records in 35 U.S. ports, checking for inaccurate or incomplete entries on tanker manifests and invoices by more than...
Civil Cases. Thus far, the FEA has referred only twelve cases to the Justice Department for possible criminal prosecution. FEA initially concentrated on developing civil cases that could lead to refunds, a practice that has brought it under criticism for laxity in policing the industry. Last week a House Commerce Subcommittee heard testimony from Customs and Florida officials about three purported attempts by FEA to stop the Jacksonville grand jury probe so that FEA could pursue a civil case. T. Edward Austin, a state prosecutor in Jacksonville, testified that as recently as last month he had felt that the FEA...
...have wanted it long or hard enough. MacLaine is a familiar character, and the film makers are careful to make him selfish and artistically ambitious beyond his true abil ity. The movie's funniest sequence is MacLaine's masterwork, a rock chorale dedicated to sanctifying women and fea turing the composer himself - singing like an androgynous elf, surrounded by hundreds of young girls, dressed in brid al gowns and crooning fervently...