THE BATTALION
Leans toward acceptance
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1975
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WASHINGTON - Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen said Tuesday he
probably will make a decision
within a day on whether to ac
cept Secret Service protection
for his presidential candidacy.
At the same time he indicated
he was leaning towards accept
ing the protection, although he
said it would put restrictions on
his travel and cost him a degree
of personal privacy with his fam
ily.
The Texas Democrat said at a
news conference that he was re
luctant to be among the few who
had decided not to accept the
Secret Service guards.
Bentsen is one of six candi
dates for the Democratic presi
dential nomination offered sec
ret service protection so far.
Rep. Morris Udall and
Alabama Gov. George C. Wal
lace have accepted and former
North Carolina Gov. Terry San
ford has turned it down.
Sen. Henry Jackson and
former Georgia Gov. Jimmy
Carter haven’t announced a de
cision.
Bentsen also said that Presi
dent Ford should stay out of
crowds on his trips around the
nation. He said Ford had an ob
ligation and right to travel the
country, “but for the few extra
hands he can shake in a crowd -
that’s too much. The President
has an obligation not to go into
crowds.”
Bentsen also said that he
didn’t believe the Secret Ser
vice should be permitted to
round up wholesale individuals
whom they suspect as threaten
ing to the lives of persons under
Secret Service protection, in
cluding the President.
Continuing on the theme of
the recent assassination at
tempts on the life of Ford, he
said they had not changed his
views on gun control and that
the only laws he would like to
see enacted are tough penalties
for carrying handguns or using
firearms in the commission of
crimes.
On his presidential plans,
Bentsen said he still hadn’t
reached any decision on what
primaries, except Texas, he
would enter, and that he had
shifted some of his campaign
work from New York City into
upstate New York to do more
work in that part of the state.
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SAN ANTONIO, - Basin Inc., a Texas oil
marketing firm, filed suit Tuesday to block ex
tended federal controls over crude oil prices and
allocations.
Present Ford signed Monday an extension
of federal controls through Nov. 15. The original
controls, enacted by Congress in 1973, expired
Aug. 31.
Basin asked for an injunction claming that it
contracted to buy 350,0(X) barrels of oil per
month since the controls expired and before the
controls were extended.
Lawyers for Basin said in the suit that the
extension is unconstitutional because it retroac
tively reinstates civil and criminal penalties for
violations under the original act.
"Unless Basin and its suppliers are assured
the freedom to continue purchases and sales or
crude oil persuant to their contracts,” the suit
said, “Basin will lose those sources of crude oil. ”
Criminal penalties for violation of the original
act carry a fine of up to $5,000. Civil fines of up
to $2,500 per day may be .levied also.
Basin, headquartered at Midland, Tex.,
claimed that restraints under the act have stop
ped it from operating at a profit, losing $210,000
since its founding in Oct. 1973.
The suit said extension of the controls placed a
new burden on the firm and destroyed its ability
to compete effectively in the oil industry.
Basin claimed in the suit that the 350,000
barrels of oil it contracted to buy represented 58
per cent of the firm’s total monthly purchase of
crude oil.
The company named the Federal Energy
Administration and its head, Frank Zarb, as de
fendants.
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