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MAURICE STANS, 65, director of C.R.P.'s finance committee. A self-made millionaire accountant, Stans joined the Nixon Administration as Secretary of Commerce in 1969. By urging import quotas, easier pollution controls and less stringent consumer-protection standards, he accumulated a sheaf of political lOUs from businessmen. When he left Commerce last year, he began calling them in, advising businessmen to make large cash or stock contributions to the campaign. They could do that secretly, he noted, by making their gifts before a tough campaign-fund disclosure law took effect in April 1972. Stans' efforts got C.R.P. into...
...addition, the President set up a new system of fees-to be paid by importers-that keeps foreign oil prices above U.S. levels and thus favors domestic industry. That should encourage the U.S. oil industry to explore for new sources of domestic oil and prevent the nation from becoming dangerously dependent on foreign suppliers. Because the fees are higher for refined products than for crude, the system also provides an incentive for American oil companies to build new refining facilities at home. As an added incentive, companies that build and expand refineries will be allowed to import...
...national commitment I believe are necessary to deal with the energy crisis." The underlying premise "that we will have continued and uninterrupted access to foreign sources of supply," Jackson feels is unjustified. S. David Freeman, director of a Ford Foundation study of energy problems, praised the end of the import quotas but found other flaws in the message: the President did not sufficiently explore foreign policy implications the possibility of oil stockpiling or even the current shortage of gasoline. Says Freeman: "There's not much to sink your teeth into...
...Impose quotas on foreign goods−Italian shoes, for example−in order to protect an import-threatened American industry...
...Congress, several shield bills are still under consideration, and one is likely to pass within the year. Whichever bill emerges is certain to have immediate import because it will apply a national standard by which the courts can judge confidentiality...