Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Floyd H. Wheeler Nome, Alaska...
...suburbs and monotoning of news barely begin to smooth out the stubborn differences that define each region of the country. Pennsylvanian Peirce and North Dakotan Hagstrom count eight discrete sections: Mid-Atlantic, New England, Great Lakes, Border South, Deep South, Great Plains, Mountain, and Pacific, which includes Alaska, an area so large that it embraces four time zones...
...would be convenient to conclude that Peirce and Hagstrom have assembled a portrait of a middle-aged U.S., its seas a little less shining, the waves of grain ringed by bald patches of subdivisions, the once purple mountains now mauve with smog. But the country does not age evenly. Alaska is barely in its adolescence; high tech has given sagging Massachusetts a facelift, and much of the South is having a rebirth. North Carolina is now tenth in population with the highest percentage of workers employed by industry. Unfortunately, there are signs of sclerosis in the heartland. "Sadly...
...leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six. A Greenpeace member who was still aboard the Rainbow Warrior grabbed film that other members had shot and jumped into a motorized rubber boat to rush it back to Alaska. But a Soviet helicopter swooped down and plucked him out of the boat...
...Japanese are eager to reduce their dependence on Middle Eastern energy sources and are looking for alternatives. They would like to buy U.S. crude from Alaska, which is 2,700 miles closer than Iran. Mike Mansfield, the U.S. Ambassador to Japan, and oil-industry officials have been arguing that the Japanese should be allowed to buy Alaskan oil. That, says Mansfield, would help correct the balance of trade between Japan and the U.S. and also save transportation costs for both countries. But the proposal has been blocked by American laws that prevent the export of Alaskan crude...