Tuesday, November 13, 1973
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Tuesday, M~vember 13, 1973 [HE MICHIGAN DAILY
House
proddeo
WASHINGTON (Reuter) -
Prodded by an oil crisis t h a t
could lead to a gasoline ration-
ing within months, the House
yesterday overwhelmingly voted
to authorize construction of the
long-delayed Alaska pipeline.
The 796-mile pipeline, the most
costly privately financed pro-
ject in history, would ultimately
bring two million barrels of cil
a day from Alaska's rich .orth
slope - about 10 per cent of
America's needs later in this
decade.
THE AUTHORIZATION b i 11
sailed through the House by 3i1
votes to 14. The Senate is ex-
pected to pass it later this week
and send it to President Nixon.
The measure would direct the
Secretary of the Interior, Rogers
Morton, to grant all necessary
rights of way for the pipeline and
would bar environmentalists fram
court action against its construc-
tion based on the Environmental
Protection Act.
The only court suits allowed
must be based on Constitutional
grounds and must be filed within
60 days of the bills becoming
law. Appeals of such suits would
go directly to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
THE PIPELINE project, in
which seven oil companies are
involved, was first announced
four years ago. As suits by En-
vironmentalists seeking to pro-
tect the fragile Alaskan ecology
repeatedly delayed a start on the
giant project, its estimated cost
balloonedfrom 900 million dol-
lars to 4.5 billion dollars.
Yesterday's approved by t h e
House followed a warning- by
Morton yesterday that gasoline
rationing may be imposed by the
government as early as January
- possibly even earlier. It would
be the first such rationing since
World War II.
Morton put the chance of ra-
tioning at more than 50-50 follow-
ing an oil boycott by the Arab
nations that came on top of
what was already a tight supply
situation.
IF PRESIDENT Nixon s i g n s
the bill immediately on receiving
it from the Senate, construction
of the pipeline could start early
next year and could be com-
pleted by mid-1977.
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by oil crisis
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Industry analysts believe that
a commitment to start the pro-
ject would improve the U.S. bar-
gaining position with the Arab
stats who have cut off supplies
to the U.S. because of its pro-
Israeli policies in the Middle-
East war. Arab oil at present
accounts for six per cent of
U.S. consumption.
Current shortages in the U.S.
are about 10 per cent of de-
mand. This could go up to 17
per cent if the Arab oil cutoff
persists.
IN THE SENATE yesterday,
the Interior Committee moved
ahead rapidly on legislation re-
quested by Nixon to combat the
fuel crisis.
The legislation would give the
President the authority to ra-
tion gasoline and oil and t h e
Committee approved riders that
would accelerate leasing of pub-
lic lands - both onshore and off
the coast - for oil drilling.
The measures, expected to be
approved by the full Senate this
week, would require the admin-
istration to restrict business
hours, impose transportation con-
trols, restrict outdoor advertise-
ments that promote energy con-
sumption and restrict non-essen-
tial uses of fuel.
THE CONSOLIDATED Edison
Co. of New York urged both the
state and city governments to
permit the burning of fuels that
contain higher sulphur levels
than currently permitted under
air-pollution laws.
Backing up Edison's bid was
a spokesman for the MCI En-
ergy Center, a research division
of the Mechanical Contracting
Industry of New York.
He called for a three per cent
voltage reduction around t h e
clock, a 25 per cent reduction in
lighting levels in office build-
ings and retail stores as well as
a 50 per cent cutback in ele-
vator and escalator services in
Manhattan buildings.
THE SPOKESMAN also called
for an end to television broad-
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Kissinger, Mao meet
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PEKING (Reuter) - U. S.
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singer held nearly three hours of
talks with Chairman Mao Tse-
Tung in the Chinese leader's
closely-guarded Peking h o m e
yesterday in their second meet-
ing this year.
U.S. spokesman announcing
yesterday's meeting gave no de-
tails 9f what was discussed.
OBSERVERS HERE cannot re-
call a similar precedent in re-
cent years of a western leader
meeting Mao twice in such a
short time, and it confirms the
respect with which Kissinger is
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Their last meeting was in late
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singer's last mission to Peking,
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China to establish non-diplomatic
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and the United States had agreed
on establishing full diplomatic
relations immediately, which is
the next major hurdle in the
fast-moving process of detente
which started two years ago with
Kissinger's first secret mission
hero.
CHINA HAS STATED that it
will not agree to full diplomatic
relations with the United States
until Washington has cut diplo-
matic ties with the nationalist
government on Taiwan and with-
drawn its remaining forces from
the island.
Military forces here note that
because of the particular nature
of the American forces on rai-
wan it would be difficult logis-
tically to pull them out inside
six months.
It is also doubtful whether the
Nixon administration is prepar-
ed to renounce its diplomatic ties
with Taiwan, particularly be-
cause U.S.-China relations have
been making such satisfactory
progress without either country
formally recognizing the other.
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