Word: alaska
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...Department of Transportation dispatched two big 378-ft. Coast Guard cutters, the Midgett and the Rush, to keep watch over Soviet trawlers fishing off Alaska. The Soviet catch in U.S. waters will be limited to the 75,000 metric tons allowed under permits issued by the U.S. in November; the Soviets had counted on netting about 435,000 tons of fish in American waters this year, about 3% of their annual consumption...
Though no modern industrial nation can be a totally self-sufficient island, the U.S. has little choice except to build safe stockpiles of those essential materials, such as chromium and manganese, that are found in quantity in only a few countries. The mineral-rich American West, Alaska and the oceans bordering the U.S. contain vast unmined natural resources that hold the longer-term promise of more domestic sufficiency and security. These minerals often remain in the ground or under water because of ecological concerns or the higher profits that firms can earn abroad. Steep mining taxes in Minnesota, Montana...
...were somewhat surprised to read in the January 4 Crimson that there are two Rhodes Scholars from "Anchorage, Al." rather than Anchorage, Ak. We do, however, appreciate the Crimson's participation in our campaign to control population growth and industrial development in Alaska. The more people who think that Anchorage in is Alabama the better! Robert J.L. London '79 David W. Levine...
...weeks he mailed out a newsletter to 1,150 "birders," as the devotees call themselves, asking them to call him collect with news of rare species in their regions ("Ask for Birdman"). He hired planes and boats and bushwacked through the woods of northern Minnesota. He flew to Alaska four times and spent 14 days on Attu, a bleak island in the Aleutians, where he saw the green sandpiper. On July 27 he surpassed the previous one-year record by spotting bird No. 658, an American woodcock, near a ditch in Chicago. In early December he flew to Texas...
...miles: 137,145 by plane, 20,305 by auto, 3,337 by boat, 384 on foot and 160 on bicycle. His odyssey cost $35,000 and put a strain on his marriage. "I would have sold him for a dime," says his wife Virginia, "when he went off to Alaska and left me for weeks with the kids...