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WASHINGTON — “The big oil companies have Mr. Nixon in a double hammer-lock. After their massive contributions there is little he can do to control them,” reports Tim Wheeler, Washington correspondent of the Daily World: on January 3.

___ Commenting on a study by a U.S. congressmen, Wheeler’s report said:

The Senate Watergate Com- mittee was handed a report to-

- day disclosing that Big Oil head- ed by the Rockefeller brothers and Richard Scaife of the Gulf- Mellon fortune secretly pumped nearly $5-million into President

: Nixon’s re-election coffers.

= The 58-page study prepared

by Rep. Aspin (D-Wis.) threw light on why Nixon is giving the green light for Exxon, Gulf, Texaco and Atlantic-Richfield to fleece the public with gasoline and home heating oil prices sky- rocketing through the roof. Nixon today signed legisla- tion setting a 55-miles-per-hour speed limit. More significantly, however, he gave his approval this month for increases in gas and fuel oil prices which govern- ment sources indicated would raise prices 10 cents per gallon by March 1. An immediate one- and-a-half-cent per gallon price boost was approved. : et Rumor: $1 x Galion ‘The average price of gasoline in December was 43.3 cents per gallon, meaning that consumers by March can expect to spend- ing 53 cents or more per gallon eee for gasoline. Furthermore, Char- i les Owens, spokesman for the a - Federal Energy Office, refused to predict any leveling off yafter ~ March 1, ne Here in the capital the talk is of gasoline rising to $1 per gal- lon, with similarly_ disastrous mei in the price of heating me 0} = ™ ‘eu Aspin’s report revealed that oe 413 oil company directors, se- nior officials and stockholders in 178 different oil companies contributed a total of $4,981,840 to President Nixon’s re-election.

Heading the list was a $1,003,- 000 contribution by Richard Scaife, heir to the Gulf-Mellon fortune. The five Rockefeller brothers who own’ one percent of Exxon, the most powerful oil corporation in the U.S.; contri-

’ buted: $286,700 and -executives of 10 petrochemical firms ‘gave the President $505,000. Officials from the 10 most generous con- tributors kicked in a total of $2,668,424, of which 70 percent was in secret, illegal, corporate

contributions. Oil Magnates Kicked in $5,700,000

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the oil industry comes to at least $5,700,000,” Aspin said.

“The big oil companies have Mr. Nixon in a double hammer- lock. After their massive contri- butions there is little he can do to control them.”

He charged, “The entire bur- den of solving the energy short- age has been thrown on the con- sumer—not the oil companies.” He accused -the oil trusts of “reaping huge windfall profits and also undermining the envir- onmental movement.”

The huge profits of the oil monopolies havé become .a major issue with motorists on

long lines paying through the

nose for a limited amount of gasoline — and awaiting further rises.

The nation’s top 20 oil com- panies reaped greater profits in 1973 than in 1972. A sampling of the profits bonanza for the first nine months of 1973 and the rate of increase over 1972 gives the picture:

Exxon $1.6 billion 59% Texaco $838 million 35% Mobil $571 million 38% Gulf $570 million 60% Standard

Calif. $560 million 40% Standard,

Ind. $389 million 32% Shell $253 million 41% ARCO $178 million 37% Phillips $143 million -30%

Aspin: said he is turning over the study to the Senate Water- gate Committee with a request that it investigate “possible addi- tional secret and maybe even corporate gifts.”

Other oil contributors includ- ed Amerada Hess Corp., with a contribution of $261,956, which $211,000 was secret; Get- ty Oil Company, $179,292 —

of —

$77,500 of it secret; Standard Oil of California, $166,000 — $102,000 of it secret; Sun Oil Company, $157,798 — $60,000 of it secret; Phillips Petroleum Company, $137,000 — $100,000 of it secret; Exxon, $172,747 — $100,672 secret, and others. “Aspin used two lists of contri- butors in compiling his expose. One, published by the General Accounting Office of the Federal

-government, lists contributions

made after April 7, 1972, when a new campaign contributions law took effect. The other was disclosed as a result of a suit filed by Common. Cause against the Finance Committee to Re- Elect the President.

Aspin gleaned from these lists the names of the boards of dir- ectors which he found listed: in a report of the American Petro- leum Institute.

Impact on Impeachment Seen

The big oil disclosures, coup- led with the energy crisis, is ex- pected to trigger new demands for action on President Nixon’s impeachment by the House Ju- diciary Committee. The im- peachment inquiry authorized by Congress has yet to even schedule hearings on Nixon’s impeachment.

The Senate Watergate Com- mittee, however, has scheduled a new round of hearings later this month, focusing on millions of dollars in secret payoffs to Nixon by the milk monopolists and by Howard Hughes, much of it funneled through Nixon’s close friend, Bebe Rebozo.

Special interest in the Hughes donations has been sparked by reports that Teamster union president Frank Fitzsimmons and the union were tied in with the huge contributions.

CPC demands release of Corvalan

The following telegram was sent Dec. 21, 1973, to the military government in Santiago: :

“On behalf of thousands of Canadian workers and demo- crats, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada demands the immediate release from prison of Luis Corvalan, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Chile and Senator. We are shocked to learn that Luis Corvalan has been transported to the notorious Dawson Island concentration camp and that further arrests, tortures and executions are being committed in Chile.

“At the same time we demand the release of all arrested supporters of the constitutionally elected Popular Unity Government and the restoration of democracy in Chile.”

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USSR not liable Ee

former Soviet Jews |

MOSCOW—The Soviet press reacted last month to a cam- paign being waged in the West attempting to place the respon- sibility for the tragic position of several hundred former Soviet Jews presently strandet in such cities as Vienna, Rome, Brussels and Istanbul. These people fell for the bait of Zionist’ propa- ganda and left the USSR for Israel. Most are skilled — doc- tors, engineers and other profes- sionals — who. lived in Israel from a week to six months before becoming disillusioned and leaving. :

Referring to the more than 300 of these homeless, jobless people now in Austria, several newspapers there have demand- ed the USSR issue visas and permit them to return home. They are called “stateless per- sons” and ‘people without a motherland” by the press which uses their difficulties to engage in a range of anti-Soviet attacks.

The Soviet journal “Evening

hatreds are punishable by Sovie law.” a

The paper goes on to explé that every person who deci to emigrate to Israel, and con quently lost their Soviet citiz ship, had been warned they could find themselves grave situation in that country that the reality of life in Israé had nothing in common with tht glowing reports circulated DB the Zionist campaign. “It 3 therefore, natural that the Sov

iet people feel indignant at at tempts to incriminate the USSR for refusing*to restore citizef ship to people who clearly not cherish their homeland,” paper says. “In reality, the tire responsibility for the gri ous situation rests with Israeli government. It is Aviv, through false propagan which persistently persua' Jewish families, including thi in the USSR, to leave for Is — knowing full well that th country. cannot ensure no:

Moscow,” in reply, asks the living conditions for emigra question: “Who is to blame for “The responsibility must this growing tragedy?” and be shared by Zionist organ

tions and those who suppoti) them for the misleading propa” ganda about what awaits emlg rants to Israel.” . 4 Evening Moscow concludé by reminding the Austrian pr that the USSR forced no one leave their country and has intention to receive back th who did not wish to live in Soviet Union.

places the responsibility square- ly on those who drove these people into such a venture.

“In the Soviet Union there is no unemployment which, in capitalist countries, drives hun- dreds of thousands of people, like rolling stones, to emigration - in search of work. Anti-Semit- ism, as any racial intolerance, and the stirring up of national

Peru takes over giant © U.S. mining monopoly ©

LIMA — Peru’s armed’ forces revolutionary government head- ed by President Velasco exprop- riated the -giant U.S.-owned Cerro de Pasco mining corpora- tion on Jan. 1, .

The government pointed out that during the 55 years of its operations in Peru, the company had “failed to comply with its legal obligations in respect of hygiene, housing and insurance for its workers, much to their detriment.” '

It went on: “It has been estab- lished that Cerro’s negligence in this respect has caused the pol- lution of neighbouring rivers, causing serious damage to agri- culture and to animal life. The company itself has admitted the seriouness of the surrounding pollution, but has shown no desire to bring it to an end.”

The Cerro de Pasco Corpora- tion has operated in Peru under different names for about 71 years.

The company claims that its assets are worth about £58 mil-

lion, and last year produce copper, lead, zinc, bismuth, g' and silver and other me worth about £90 million, counting for 35% of Pe mineral production.

Cerro has operated six ma mines in central Peru. The propriation of the company marked by a mass meeting miners at.La Oroya in the Andé mountains, west of Peru’s ca tal of Lima, where Cerro h its main processing. plants.

In a nationwide broadcast President Velasco denounce? Cerro as “the most faithful sy bol of the imperialist presenct in Peru,” and said its takeo was an occasion for rejoicing: |

He said the expropriation 0 Cerro would also mean “the expropriation of its econo domination and political po

In New York, the U.S. parem company said it was confid that the Peruvian governm would live up its legal obli tion and pay for Cerry’s pro ties it has nationalized,

Marchers in a recent demonstration in Lima, Peru, declare th i ; support for the anti-imperialist policy of the Velasco Alvarado ge