Word: ngs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pledge. Nixon had sent Walter Hickel to the disaster area in a presidential jet. At first, Hickel impressed Santa Barbarans by persuading all oil companies in the area to suspend operations. Then, inexplicably, Hickel reversed himself, only to re-reverse his stand two days later and close the ngs down again. Hickel's ambivalence and his defense of Union Oil infuriated conservationists, who noted that the Secretary had close relations with the oil industry while Governor of Alaska. Nor were the citizens of the oil-soaked town reassured. "I have the feeling," said Fred Eissler of the Sierra Club...