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...folks back home, who still revere him for coming to the rescue of Wilkes-Barre after it was virtually destroyed by the raging Susquehanna River during Hurricane Agnes in 1972. After hearing about the disaster at midnight in Washington, he flew home aboard then Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird's personal helicopter, and declared: "This is going to be one Flood against another." He soon learned that the most critical need was for helicopters to rescue marooned victims. He phoned a top official at the Pentagon and bellowed: "I want those helicopters, and I want them this afternoon...
...closing flurry of lobbying for gas deregulation last week, the opposing sides could agree on one thing: they had never seen anything like it. Said the American Gas Association's vice president for Government relations, Nick L. Laird: "It is one of the most intensive, all-out efforts I've ever witnessed." Added James Plug, director of Energy Action Committee, a consumers' lobbying group: "From my experience on the Hill, I don't remember anything like it. Maybe the exception is the antiwar movement...
...other extreme, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research contends that there is enough oil and gas in the world to last 100 years or more-provided that industrial nations are willing to pay the price of developing it. Former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird says that there is no energy shortage, only a production shortage brought about by unwise Government policy. Says Economist Morris A. Adelman, an M.I.T. colleague of Wilson's: "The gap is like the horizon, always receding as you walk, ride, or fly toward...
...price the economy could afford. Instead, the program focuses on conservation-inducing the U.S. to use up more slowly the oil and gas that the nation knows it can count on producing. Conservation is necessary, but not sufficient: at best it only postpones the ultimate day of reckoning. As Laird observes: "Conservation alone is a slow walk down a dead-end street...
...they can't find one, they'll seek a mixed market-Government solution. If they can't find that either, then :hey'll suggest a Government solution." One of A.E.I.'s preoccupations is pointing out the distorting effects of Government regulation on the economy. Laird's energy study goes so far as to assert that the U.S. has no energy shortage as such but a "production shortage," brought about by Government regulation that has artificially heightened demand and held down exploration and development by keeping prices unrealistically...