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Show Enterprise Review, March 24, 1976 Oil Firms Seek Divestiture of Senate Lobby by D. Van De Graaff Nelson and Stevenson. Jackson, and Those who believe the oil lobby is .should Specifically, the charges visit Washington and view, in leveled at the legislators the flesh their utter futility or include: The Eight wield unusual read proposed legislation seeking to penalize the oil influence over Congressional industry. Any rational observ activities, mainly those coner would conclude that oil and cerned with all-power- ful big-busine- ss divestiture; The Eight propose continual restrictive legislation which their fellow Senators are loath to counter-ac- t for fear of reprisal; The Eight monopolize media coverage through intimidation, and then misuse their power by embarrassing representatives of business appearing before their committees; The Eight pay no tax on Hill. Capitol g privileges such as franking (free use of WASHINGTON, DC the mails), parking spaces, Twenty major oil companies subsidized food, health facilitoday filed suit to break up the ties and trips to their district eight most influential Senators for alleged legislative duties. on Hill. gas companies are today totally ineffective on Capitol Hill. One internal criticism is that in spite of their poor showing, many oil companies continue with the same old public relations programs, not adjusting to the times. At least one nameless PR man showed a sense of humor when he issued a tongue-in-chee- k release carried in Roll Call - The Newspaper of income-replacin- -- Capitol Named in the complaint were - Senators Bayh, Kennedy, the Harts, Abourezk, The time Americans woke up to the fact that these eight men completely dominate all thought in government. Its restrictive and should be handled as any anti-trucase would. The aide also referred to a ate lackeys who so thoroughly dominate society with their decadent capitalistic ways. We plan to fight this suit all the way to the highest courts if necessary. Furthermore, the staffer added, none of the eight Senators named generates as oil company much as one percent of the staff study that shows the Eight Sisters (as referred to in thought being spewed forth the study): daily in the halls of Congress; this is hardly a monopoly, and Willfully lobby their consticertainly not . grounds for tuents and alike in the matter of taking control of big business, especially petroleum; ' Knowingly cut off smaller Senators from participating in debate when committees hear witnesses; st yet-unreleas- ed divestiture of thought horizontally, vertically or diagonally. In the suit, the companies propose legislation which would break up the Senators into lots of little lawmakers, and would assure equal power for all. It would give the Burdicks, Huddlestons, Morgans and Nunns an equal voice in the marketplace, one oil staffer remarked. co-work- ers .pro-busine- Business Opportunity in Growth Industry ss Threaten less influential lawmakers with expulsion from the of secret sharers if they dare go against inner-circl- e the Eights anti-o- il posture; The Eight hold-dow- n production of contrary opinions underestiSpeaking for the oil com- and continually to an aide one board mate the reserves of their panies, chairman said, Its about business adversaries. Responding Owner seeks partner to manufacture motorcycles. Low liabilities. low-co- st NET WORTH OVER $150,000 LIABILITIES $30,000 these to an Un-Colu- mn Advertising, Promotion, and Other Modes of Insomnia. By Ryan Poulton- No doubt about are cut from an entirely different mold than promotors. Marconi, for example, invented the wireless, but they never should have let him DJ his own show. 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