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...their wives) really pull off a nationwide strike? Similar efforts in the past have foundered on the farmers' craggy individualism. Already, 80% of the winter wheat has been planted-a sign that farmers are not exactly slowing down. Says Farmer Harold Klein, who is active in the North Dakota wheat pool, an organization set up to eliminate the middleman in handling exports: "The farmers talk about strikes but go ahead and plant anyway, hoping that their neighbors will do the striking...
...certain that deregulation would win momentarily but lose in conference with the House. He also saw the filibuster as a threat to his developing reputation for running the Senate briskly and feared that the Senate would end up with no natural gas bill at all. The filibuster leaders, South Dakota's James Abourezk and Ohio's Howard Metzenbaum, thought they were helping Carter to get an effective energy bill...
...Mondale was about to crush the filibuster, Abourezk scoffed, "Ah, he wouldn't do that." Metzenbaum asked Senator Edward Kennedy about the same rumor; Kennedy too expressed disbelief. Mondale, meanwhile, was also busy buttonholing four Senators considered soft in their support of deregulation: Democrats Quentin Burdick of North Dakota, Wendell Ford of Kentucky and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona; and Republican John Chafee of Rhode Island. The Vice President told them that the President would see them, one by one, if they wished; all four accepted the offer and were whisked off in waiting White House cars...
While the White House dawdled, the forces attacking Carter's energy plan and supporting deregulation mobilized skillfully. The pressure was unrelenting but not brutal. "There was no arm twisting," said North Dakota Democrat Quentin Burdick, a particularly vulnerable target because he was one of the fence sitters (he eventually voted for deregulation). "It was very gentlemanly...
...match for the pro-gas juggernaut. Even if the gas interests do not win complete deregulation in the end, they are confident they will get a good price for their product when the two chambers meet in conference to thrash out a final bill. Said James Abourezk, the South Dakota Democrat who launched the filibuster in hopes of thwarting the deregulators: "If you want to talk about lobbying, wait until the oil and gas boys zero in on the conference committee members...