Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purpose of such flights is well known to the Russians. Soviet trawlers carry out the same sort of missions off the coast of the U.S.; Soviet planes constantly probe the DEW line radars that reach from Alaska across Canada. And since the ferrets must come as close as possible to coastal defenses without leaving international airspace, their careful flight plans follow courses as rigid and regular as a railroad route. There was no doubt that the Soviets knew exactly where the Olmstead-McKone RB-47 intended to fly as it circled north. If Soviet radars had not been able...
...lower Yukon, Eskimos in sealskin mukluks last week mushed their snarling dog teams to a place called Alakanuk-which means, in Eskimo, "It's a mistake."* They came to tell their political problems to a priest, for the Rev. Segundo Llorente, S.J., has just been elected to Alaska's state legislature, the first Roman Catholic priest to hold elected legislative office in a U.S. state...
...Paloma on the Yukon. Spanish-born Father Llorente decided to be a priest when he was seven, joined the Jesuits at 16. "I wanted to be a missionary," he says. "I just put an atlas in front of me and I spotted Alaska. A kid feels very holy. I thought, 'Christ died for me on the Cross, so I'll die for him in the snow.'" (Segundo's brother Armando, also a Jesuit missionary, is serving in the sun as a student adviser in Castro's Havana University...
Llorente came to the U.S. in 1930. He took his three years of theology at St. Mary's College in Kansas, and was ordained a priest in 1934. A year later he was in Alaska. "I heard him when he first came up the Yukon on a boat in the summer of 1935," says Eskimo Trader John Elachik. "He was singing La Paloma so loud we could hear him way up the river. We thought he was drunk...
Necessary Evil. Last September, Father Llorente heard that the Eskimos of Alaska's 24th District were planning to write in his name as Democratic candidate for the state legislature. Promptly he asked his bishop, the Most Rev. Francis D. Gleeson, S.J., who told him it was all right to take the job provided that he did nothing to get himself elected. The final count: 210 for Father Llorente, 93 and 91 for his two opponents. At this point, Bishop Gleeson began to have second thoughts-especially in a year when Protestant-Catholic tensions had become an election issue...