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...Economists, warned that decontrol would add one point to the inflation rate and that the price rise OPEC is expected to announce soon may add another. Last week the pessimists drew some support from an unexpected source: a major oil company. In a widely noted letter to congressmen, Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. said that sudden decontrol might be "a shock" to the recovery and could slash consumer buying power by as much as $8 billion-well above the Administration's estimate of $5.3 billion...
...lengthening list of giant U.S. corporations, including Exxon, Gulf, Mobil, United Brands and Northrop, had previously admitted to making similar payoffs. The SEC's policy has been to require corporations in such cases to reveal who got their political payments and to agree not to make any more. Some have complied, others are resisting. Last week Ashland Oil Inc. argued that securities laws do not require public disclosure of the recipients of questionable payments that the company says it has made in Nigeria, Gabon, Libya and the Dominican Republic. Ashland has already supplied the names...
...Italian affiliate had spent from $46 million to $49 million to gain such political favors as favorable treatment of refinery licenses, levies on gasoline and heating oil, and other tax legislation. That sum far exceeds the political payments revealed by other U.S. corporations such as Gulf, Northrop* and Mobil (which last week admitted making political contributions of $2 million in Italy between...
Syrian Forebears. Aramco, a consortium composed of the Saudi Arabians, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil of California, gives about $200,000 a year to support groups in the Arab lobby. In the past twelve years, Mobil has donated $170,000. Exxon, excluding its gifts for Arab studies at various U.S. schools, contributes about $150,000 a year. Most oil companies are reluctant to discuss such gifts, but despite the oil companies' obvious self-interest, Aramco Senior Vice President Joseph J. Johnston insists that the donations could play a crucial educational role. "It would be useful," he says...
...Amerada Hess, Atlantic Richfield, British Petroleum, Exxon, Mobil, Phillips, Sohio and Union...