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EgsAlij CONTINUED And what about the U.S. role in the future? "Well, during this, your Bicentennial year, that certainly is a question worth asking," says Giscard, as he rises and walks slowly over to the large window looking out on the lush Elysle Palace lawn. Then, smiling broadly, he concludes: "Look, the U.S. is in many ways the most important country in the world today, so it is only natural that you will have a tremendous influence on where the world is going. For 200 years, you have had a history of freedom and independence, and, yes, you've been a model in this way.

But while we in France come to pay our respects to you, to share your Bicentennial, it is not for us to predict what role you will actually play in. the futureThat answer, as Ive suggested in our talk and as I will suggest again in my speech to your Congress, is something that still remains to be heard. Meanwhile, I assure you of this: We ire all listening." Myth of oil power. The American people are being dupatf there, we said Straight out. Politicians runningfor office, aware that voters are frustrated and angry about many things, have discovered in the bigness of business especially oil companies a convenient explanation for all the things wrong with our country But think about that issue.

Where's aH that power our critics say we have? It wasn't enough, certainly, to keep Congress from raising industry taxes in 1975 or to keep foreign governments from taking over many of our producing properties. It hasn't been able to get price controls removed on oil ours is the only industry stiH subject to those "emergency" controls, imposed five long years ago. Oil's power, frankly, is a myth. But it's no myth that oil companies have become scapegoats. If we sound angry about it we are.

Giscard plays with his dogs outside the Elyste Palace. His inlormality is in sharp contrast (o the unbending manner of predecessor Charles de Gaulle. UPS EXTLHNlNGr HOW BREAKING UP TUB OIL COftPMies WOOLP WM' Achates heeL America's dependence on foreign ofi is bad and getting worse, according to a report prepared for the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy by the Congressional Research Service. Says the report A careful analysis of current worldwide oil reserves leads to the inevitable conclusion that the U.S. will become highly dependent on oil from the Middle East and North Africa during the coming decade.

What to do about it? maximizing coal utilization and nuclear power would significantly reduce dependence on foreign imports of oil by 1965 and beyond," the report states. One we won. We'rq delighted that Mobirs underwriting of a Bicentennial exhibit of 250 unique posters prompted Business and Society Review to name us a winner of its 1975 Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. And we'd ike to share these robust, persuasive posters with you. A part of ourcountry'e artistic tradition, they shock, entertain, entreat, admonish, invite, and rejoice.

The entire collection. Images of an Era: the American Poster, 1945-75, has been published in a full-color exhibition catalog. It's available for $17.50 in check or money order, made out to "Images of an Era, at the address 99 A quote we IHnu'Rofitical elections are a good deal ike marriages therels no accounting for anyone's taste. Will Rogers Mobil PARADE MAY It. ISM Giscard is an active sportsman, enjoying skiing, tennis and soccer, ffe plays the piano and writes fiction, says he would like to do a personal, not political, novel.

Obfrvtrtont, Bob Mobil Oil Corporation. 150 East 42 8tvaat. Naar York, N.Y. 10017.