Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when a number of terrorist incidents in Europe followed the bombings in Libya, "we were sitting on [the Europe trip]," Dostart says. They picked up travel pamphlets about Mexico and Alaska and heard out their parents' concerns. Very recently they concluded that terrorism in Europe had sufficiently subsided, and bought non-refundable round-trip tickets for Paris...
Reagan was to return to Washington on today, with only a refueling stop in Anchorage, Alaska, concluding the more than 22,000-mile, 13-day Far Eastern tour, the longest out-of-town trip of his more than five-year presidency...
Although the airline increased its own security precautions, it has not attempted to publicize these efforts. "We don't want to emphasize the problem," said TWA spokesman Bill Brown. He said that although the company is in no grave financial danger, it is adding flights to Alaska and Hawaii to its route schedule...
They call him the Wanderer. For the past three years, San Francisco Native John Weymouth, 33, has drifted about the American West and Alaska, keeping to himself, getting by on odd jobs, never staying in one place for very long. Last week the misanthrope, who wants only to be left alone, briefly became a focus of international attention. Early this month the Wanderer took a 2 1/2- mile stroll across the frozen Bering Strait, from America's Little Diomede Island to Big Diomede in the U.S.S.R. The suspicious Soviets moved him to a tiny room on the mainland and interrogated...
...since our fuel-contracting people have had so much fun," says Thomas Page, president of San Diego Gas & Electric, a utility with 900,000 customers. Until February, SDG&E consumed nothing but natural gas; then, with a few adjustments at its power plants, the company began burning oil from Alaska, Australia and Indonesia. Average cost of the new fuel: about $11 per bbl. SDG&E says it is now saving $500,000 to $1 million a month. Analyst Gregory Enholm of the Salomon Brothers investment banking firm estimates that utility rates in the West and the Northeast, where oil-burning...