Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nations that battled so fiercely in the Pacific are now bound together by mutual need. Hirohito had wanted to come to the U.S. for years (en route to Europe in 1971, he had stopped over in Alaska for a brief meeting with President Nixon), but he was dissuaded from doing so by the anti-Americanism of the Japanese left and the ill-will caused in 1971 when President Richard Nixon did not consult or even inform Japan be fore announcing a new policy toward China. To help ease that tension, President Gerald Ford went to Japan last November...
...weeks a convoy of 15 giant barges, each longer than a football field and carrying vital equipment for construction of the Alaska oil pipeline, had waited at anchor for strong winds to blow ice away from the shore line near Point Barrow. That would create a narrow navigation channel, enabling ice-free sailing to the pipeline's northern terminus at Prudhoe Bay. The winds finally came, and the convoy moved out. But the winds shifted unexpectedly and began blowing ice back into the path of the fleet. Last week the convoy was forced to retreat 30 miles to avoid...
...first trouble encountered by the barges since they left Puget Sound in July for the 3,500-mile voyage. Of the 47 vessels in the original convoy-the largest in peacetime maritime history-ten made it through to Prudhoe. Another 19 turned back for southern Alaska ports: they encountered the worst ice conditions in 77 years. One barge was beached and is being repaired. The 15 that turned back last week contained, among other items, modular buildings, without which oil production cannot begin...
...less euphoria than in earlier years but with more experience, maturity and confidence. Though only a trickle of oil is being pumped now, oilmen expect crude to flow in ever increasing quantities from an undersea supply estimated at 40 billion bbl., two to four times the recoverable reserves from Alaska's North Slope. Some experts say the total could be 70 billion bbl.-roughly equal to the so-far proven reserves of Kuwait-or even 150 billion...
...detected only by sensitive seismographs. Others are more violent but occur on the ocean floor or in remote areas and do no harm. Some add to the long catalogue of destruction. Last week, for example, a 4.7 earthquake rocked lightly populated Kodiak Island, off the coast of Alaska. In July, a 6.8 quake struck Pagan, Burma, destroying or damaging half of the city's historic temples. Within the past several weeks, strong earthquakes struck Oroville, Calif., Mindanao in the Philippines, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia and the southwest Pacific island of Bougainville...