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...spokesman. Last week was McCloskey's first as Kissinger's ambassador to Capitol Hill, a job described by an aide to the Secretary as "one of the toughest in Washington right now." "He won't have much to tell us," says Democratic Senator Adlai Stevenson III. "But if he's tough and honest, he may have an opportunity to tell his boss a thing...
...assault on Percy suggested that Jewish reaction depends a lot upon how and where a sensitive Israeli topic is approached. Percy's senatorial colleague, Democrat Adlai Stevenson III, expressed similar warnings against Israeli foot-dragging on negotiations, but at a Bonds for Israel banquet and without the inflammatory words. Even AlPAC's Si Kenen, writing in the Jerusalem Post...
This week Illinois Democrat Adlai Stevenson III plans to introduce in the Senate a bill calling for creation of a National Energy Supply Corp. Its purpose: to operate alongside existing energy firms and offer the public a "yardstick" by which to realistically gauge the industry's prices, profits and overall performance. The notion of a federal oil firm is likely to be given an even stronger push by another bill, also scheduled to be put forward in the Senate this week, by the current front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Washington's Henry M. Jackson. His legislation...
...STEVENSON'S YARDSTICK: The Government-owned National Energy Supply Corp. would gradually get into the full range of oil and natural gas exploration, development and production. The NESC would be given first crack at development rights for up to 20% of any Government-owned oil or natural gas tract on land or offshore. The corporation would produce some fuel for Government stockpiles and sell the rest to independent oil firms-at prices that would aim to stimulate competition in the industry. The NESC would not market its oil and natural gas at below cost, but it would keep...
...some areas have forced companies to go so far as to disguise their drilling rigs as tall buildings. In the future, Congress and the companies will certainly be debating the charge that the industry could have found and pumped more oil. Meanwhile, whatever their specific merits, the Jackson and Stevenson bills will help give some shape to the growing debate over how, and how far, Government power should be used to help the U.S. move toward its goal of energy independence...