Word: ribicoffs
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...comparable period would have brought on considerable praise. But, at a time of oil shortages and sharply rising prices, the great increases fed suspicions on Capitol Hill that the oilmen were using the scarcity as an excuse for jacking up prices and making extortionate profits. Charged Connecticut Senator Abraham Ribicoff: "While the consumer is suffering, the industry seems to be receiving a bonanza...
...another point, Ribicoff accused the international oil companies of engaging in a "conspiracy" to create a "panic situation" in the U.S. He had no discernible proof for the charge. By week's end Jackson conceded that "these hearings have not turned up any hard evidence that the major oil companies deliberately created the crisis." After the buffeting by Jackson and his colleagues, the oilmen were sore and furious. "They made me feel I was at a criminal trial," said Gulf Oil Co. U.S. President Z.D. Bonner...
...Federal Power Commission have claimed the plant would kill 3 per cent of the striped bass hatch yearly; the AEC study, released this week by Sen. Abraham S. Ribicoff (D-Conn.) estimates a 25 per cent to 75 per cent annual kill...
...appears obvious," Ribicoff said, "that the utility and the Federal Power Commission clearly underestimated the potential damage at Storm King...
...some of Israel's strongest supporters are liberals who led antiwar sentiment in the U.S. during the Viet Nam years. The Senate resolution urging the continued delivery of Phantom fighter-bombers and other war materials was introduced by, among others, Viet Nam Doves Jacob K. Javits and Abraham Ribicoff. Among the "American Professors for Peace in the Middle East" who signed an ad in the New York Times advocating support of Israel was Martin Peretz, an assistant professor of social studies at Harvard and a major contributor to George McGovern's campaign...