Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which the Republican platform no longer supports, impressed many delegates as symbolic, an opening for Government intrusion into family life and a denial of the biblical description of the family. Paul Glover from Alaska, an evangelical minister and organizer for the Fundamentalist political group Moral Majority, said, "It's all in Genesis: God created Adam, whose rib provided the spare parts for the first loudspeaker (i.e., Eve)." Glover's wife Carolyn, a first-time delegate and a member of the national platform committee, chuckled. Glover earnestly went on: "The ERA as it is written is a blank check...
...next day, Carter flew to Alaska, where he rose at 4 a.m. Alaska time to don his waders and go by helicopter to a remote area north of Anchorage to fish for trout and grayling. The catch: 24 grayling. Then it was off to Sapelo Island, Ga., where he planned to watch the nomination of the man who hopes to move into the White House next January...
...announcement came as a surprise, even to most Iranian officials. Banisadr learned of Khomeini's decision only a few hours before the radio announcement. Half a world away, Jimmy Carter heard the news in Anchorage, Alaska, where he was stopping over on his way home from his visit to Japan. Declaring that the U.S. would be "very thankful" for Queen's release, the President quickly added: "The humanitarian thing to do would be to release all the hostages immediately." The next day he spoke with Queen for ten minutes by telephone. Happiest of all were Queen...
...possibly distress signals, as he tried to generate momentum for his campaign. Though he had just returned from a moderately upbeat trip to Europe, Carter took off on another 15-day marathon that would wing him twice across the U.S., then to Japan, then to a stopover in Alaska on the way back and finally to a few days of rest at Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia, where he would watch the Republican Convention...
...public does not understand the alphabet soup of things that are strangling us. The Government, for example, drilled 60 holes while exploring in the federal petroleum reserve in Alaska. Nobody stopped it or interfered. But now that there is discussion about private industry's undertaking the job, there are all kinds of noises about the need for environmental impact statements. We do need Government control, but not this laborious paperwork and red tape that cause such delay...