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Protagonist of the hearings was a little-known development company called Maine Clean Fuels, Inc., which is armed with precious federal permission to import foreign crude and residual oil. Clean Fuels wants to build-but not operate -a $150 million oil-desulfurization plant at the head of glorious Penobscot Bay. The proposed site: the little town of Searsport (pop. 1,800), a drab, faded conglomeration of weather-beaten brick buildings, a railroad depot, an oil tank farm and a Purina Dog Chow silo. Though Clean Fuels had previously been turned down by both Riverhead, N.Y., and South Portland...
...documentary's producers misleadingly edited film in order to disparage the Pentagon's publicity effort (TIME, April 5). Representative Harley Staggers not only complained to the FCC but also threatened to open an inquiry by his Special Subcommittee on Investigations. The Washington Post, though praising the import of the documentary, published two more lengthy editorials, again challenging the film's production techniques and accuracy. Not surprisingly, CBS News President Richard Salant saw the Government attack as a Washington witch hunt reminiscent of the prevailing atmosphere during the Ed Murrow-Joe McCarthy confrontation in 1954, and dramatically pictured...
Because protectionism seemed good politics in a congressional election year, throughout 1970 the Administration, joined mainly by Southern textile magnates and their friends in Congress, pressed hard for a bill that would impose import quotas on textiles. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Wilbur Mills, Arkansan and free trader, feared that any such law would wind up as a Christmas-tree bill for protectionists eager to defend domestic prices for everything from hats to shoes. Official negotiations with the Japanese had ended, so early this year Mills began private bargaining-with the Administration's knowledge-that resulted...
...supporters have deluged Congress and potential backers elsewhere with a mail blitz of 400,000 pieces of literature. In smooth prose, they seek to rebut each criticism of the plane and to stress its economic benefits. One broadside claims that "one SST sold overseas will offset the import of 20,000 Volkswagens or 200,000 Japanese TV sets...
...government and textile industry. Succeeding where the Nixon Administration had failed in two years of formal talks, Mills persuaded the Japanese to declare that they would unilaterally restrict their textile shipments to the U.S. If the deal had stuck, it could have stopped a congressional drive to legislate mandatory import quotas on textiles and many other foreign products. But the Japanese offer did not satisfy Nixon's Southern supporters in the textile industry, and some White House aides were incensed by what they saw as Mills' protocol-dodging efforts to run his own State Department...