Contending that America’s energy crisis is due to domestic failures and not the cut-off of Middle East oil, Sen. Charles McC. Mathias. Jr. (R.Md), told an Anti-Defamation League dinner audience that “to the extent that further additional resources from the Middle East will be required…It is because the United States has failed to develop its own resources and technology to anticipate this situation.”
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