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...area" where they might pay for an interview. Sheehan sees "a legitimate case for this if we are making use of a person's expertise in a non-news situation." Wald concedes that his own network in 1962 bought interviews with the parents of the Fischer quints of Aberdeen, S. Dak., and once paid German tunnel diggers for the right to film refugees escaping from East Berlin. Says he: "I don't want to seem holier than thou...
Last week Texaco announced the discovery of a major field about 110 miles northeast of Aberdeen. Eleven other commercial fields stretch in a 600-mile band from the Shetland Islands west of Norway down as far as the south-central coast of England. Drilling is being done by British Petroleum, Exxon, Gulf, Texaco, Shell, Mobil and 35 other companies. They will start to produce small amounts later this year and expect to be bringing in 2 million bbl. a day by 1980. But a hot taxation feud between the companies and the Labor government threatens to stall development...
Scotland stands to benefit too. Aberdeen, once a somnolent fishing city, has become the undisputed center of the oil rush. Some 250 companies, many of them American-owned, are supplying everything from helicopters to hot meals for the drillers; unemployment in the city has dropped to 2.7%, half the Scottish average. But Aberdonians do not count the boom an unmixed blessing. Oilmen confide that the danger of a pipeline break under the North Sea is high. Many Scots worry that some day a tide of oil will roll in from the sea, burying their sandy beaches and destroying watering spots...
...demands at Wounded Knee centered around these three agencies. The militants called for the ouster of Wilson, Pine Ridge BIA superintendent Stanley Lyman, and Aberdeen, S.D., area Interior supervisor Wyman Babby...