Asked if the state is taking any steps to prevent further erosion of jobs at Rayovac, which announced Tuesday that its corporate headquarters will move to Atlanta, Doyle said he is working hard to make sure Midwest Air Group and Air Wisconsin remain financially viable and provide service throughout the state. <

Doyle said there are no plans for his administration to meet with Rayovac officials. "They've made their decision," he said. <

The keynote speaker at the conference was Oliver North, who predicted that terrorism will be an issue that will face Americans for at least the next decade. <

"Terrorism Jihadist terrorism is going to be the cause of major expenditures" by the federal government, said North, former National Security adviser to the Reagan administration. He has since achieved fame as a novelist and Iraq war correspondent for the Fox television network. <

"We are at war," North told the group. "Anyone that forgets the (lesson) of 9-11 is going to have to think again." <

North said the nation's intelligence community "failed us miserably" by not anticipating the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and he blamed shrinking federal support for those agencies. <

"We've treated the CIA and our intelligence services .

North said the spy agencies need to recruit university graduates who speak Arabic "who have darker features than mine." <

A conservative Republican, North also said it's time for the nation to think green. "I don't think we have to go crazy on this," he said. But he added, "We have to make sure the next generation coming along is not going to have to spend tens of billions of dollars cleaning up .

North, a figure in the 1980s scandal involving the sale of U.S. arms to Iran and diversion of profits to the Nicaraguan Contra rebels, drew a standing ovation from the crowd of more than 1,000. <