F.P.C. SEEKS DATA ON GAS RESERVES; Rules, 3-2, That Producers Must Reveal Figures
Date: 06 February 1974
By Washington Star-News
Washington Star-News
FPC votes to force individual natural gas producers to make public extent of natural gas reserves, reversing position it took in Oct '73 when it ruled that such date was valuable trade secret and that making it public 'without due compensation would most certainly be inimical to competition'; concludes public right to information outweighs private proprietary interest; decision is made specifically in connection with refusal of 4 cos to provide information, as other producers have already done; Comr Don S Smith, in siding with Chmn John N Nassikas and Comr William L Springer, casts key vote; strong dissent of Comrs Rush Moody Jr and Albert B Brooke Jr noted (M)
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Business Briefs; Congress Gets Savings and Loan Bill Savings Units Report Deposit Inflow Savings Bond Sales Nearly Double Datsun and Other Prices Going Up
Date: 06 February 1974
By Washington Star-News
Washington Star-News
HLBB sends to Cong legis that would establish class of Fed chartered stock savings and loan assns and allow their conversion from depositor-owned to common stock ownership; HLBB chmn Thomas Bomar tells US League of Savings Assns that bill would bar takeover of savings and loan units by bank holding cos by requiring would-be buyer to be on approved list (M)
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President of C.B.S. Assails Government Inroads on Freedom
Date: 07 February 1974
CBS pres Arthur R Taylor on Feb 6 assails 'misuse of Government power' that has been eroding broadcasters' freedom and now is spreading to print journalism, speech, Internatl TV and Radio Soc; says it is time for various facets of public-information indus to let Govt know that its attempts to assert control over indus 'are aimed at principles too basic to be compromised'; cites actions by Justice Dept and FCC to break up ownership of TV stations, recent subpoenas and ct citations against newsmen, and attempt by Fla Sup Ct to extend broadcast fairness doctrine to Miami Herald (S)
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Cambodia Orders Ouster Of French Correspondent
Date: 07 February 1974
Cambodian authorities on Feb 6 announce expulsion of correspondent Jean-Jacques Cazaux (Agence France-Presse), expulsion was reptdly demanded by Natl Defense Com because of some of Cazaux's dispatches from Cambodian capital
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COAST PROSECUTORS CONFER WITH KROGH
Date: 06 February 1974
Special to The New York Times
attys from office of Dist Atty Joseph L Busch on Feb 4 talk for 6 hrs in Washington with former White House aide Egil Krogh Jr, as he begins serving 6-mo prison sentence for his role in '71 burglary of office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist Dr Lewis J Fielding; is reptdly 1st time Los Angeles prosecutors discussed operation with Krogh
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HEYKAL ACCUSED OF POWER-SEEKING; A Cairo Source Explains the Influential Editor's Ouster A Parallel With Conspirators No Comment by Hevkal
Date: 06 February 1974
By HENRY TANNERSpecial to The New York Times
former Cairo newpaper Al Ahram editor Mohammed Hassanein Heykal is accused on Feb 5 by source close to Egyptian Govt of having tried to turn newspaper into 'a power center that was tantamount to a state within a state'; Govt has not officially stated reason for Heykal's dimissal on Feb 1; Heykal has not yet accepted apptmt as press adviser to Pres Sadat that was offered him; source says Sadat's purpose in removing Heykal was to liquidate power center and not to punish him; draws parallel between Heykal's activities and activities of former Vice Pres Aly Sabry and his supporters, who were sentenced to prison in May '71, on charge of having conspired to overthrow Sadat Govt; links Heykal and Al Ahram to student demonstrations 1 yr ago that impugned Sadat's willingness to fight Israel; says that Heykal, close confidant and adviser of former Pres Nasser, was often mistakenly taken to reflect views of Sadat
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WNBC 'News Magazine' to Have 3 Hosts
Date: 07 February 1974
NBC News vp Lee Hanna discloses that WNBC-TV's new 2-hr weekday news-magazine program will have 3 anchormen; says Jim Hartz, anchorman of station's present newscast, will continue into program; informed sources rept that Charles Scarborough, now with WNAC-TV in Boston, will also host program; Carl Stokes and Betty Furness will be regular reporters on program (M)
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