Word: paso
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, the 28 natural gas pipeline companies - led by Tennessee Gas Transmission (11,540 miles of main line) and El Paso Natural Gas (10,719 miles) - are almost all publicly owned...
...pipelines buy natural gas at the wellhead, resell it at the far end at cost, plus an intricately figured fee. Because of recurring battles over rate increases with the consumer-minded FPC, the gas lines are usually involved in controversy. In a recent rate case, El Paso Natural Gas was ordered to give back $155 million with interest to California utilities...
Potential Assassins. Two weeks ago, when President Johnson visited El Paso, the new security measures were in effect. Before his arrival, agents inspected every hotel, boardinghouse and high building along his 20.4-mile route from the airport into the heart of the city and back. The agents compiled a list of "transient people" in all those buildings, compared the names with those on the rapidly growing list of potential presidential assassins...
Managers of each building received cards bearing a Secret Service phone number, were ordered to call immediately if they spotted any weapons or heard suspicious conversations. Two hundred El Paso firemen were assigned to traffic control, thus freeing city cops to watch the crowd and buildings. Armed Texas Border Patrolmen were stationed on roofs along the route. They carried walkie-talkies and could flash instant reports on any suspicious activities to the Secret Service. Whenever Johnson plunged into the mass of curbside spectators, he was surrounded by circles of Secret Service men, FBI agents and city detectives...
...Reluctant President. Secret Service men may well have been pleased with their El Paso precautions. But as the Warren Commission noted: "The protective task is further complicated by the reluctance of Presidents to take security precautions which might interfere with the performance of their duties, or their desire to have frequent and easy access to the people...