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...Alaskan pipeline and Hoover Dam are, nothing that Bechtel has ever helped build can compare with the Jubail project. Some 324 miles northeast of the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, on desolate salt flats washed by the Persian Gulf and baked in 100-plus temperatures for much of the year, a whole new ultramodern city is emerging. When completed in 15 years, this megastructure will cover an area as large as Greater London and contain a population as numerous as that of Minneapolis...
...tributes come just as the birds, which range from south Florida to the Alaskan wilds, are making a comeback from near extinction caused by chemical pesticides and other modern hazards. For that reason, the year's most significant event was the opening in mid-June of the 50,000-acre Haines Eagle Preserve near Juneau, Alaska. Governor Jay Hammond plans to contribute some of Alaska's estimated flock of 30,000 eagles to 21 other states that are trying to rebuild their populations. Additional help came from an unexpected quarter last month when West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
...second bill which Burke introduced ensured equal employment opportunity on the Alaskan pipeline by binding federal pipeline funds to the enactment of an affirmative action program. The "Burke Amendment" eventually resulted in the awarding of $312 million in contracts to women and minorities and, as Burke notes, "established a precedent for a different approach to affirmative action in contracts...
...refusal to sell Alaskan oil to his country and the Allies post-World War II limit on Japan's defense spending have also added to the trade deficit, Amaya said. Japan's defense budget is limited to less than two percent of its gross national product...
...affair, is limited to what it can do by law. Murphy, with the State Department Pakistan desk, says the case of the Kirghiz has been "flopping around for about two years because of a lack of focus to it." He adds that he was "delighted" that the Institute for Alaskan Studies had taken up the Kirghiz cause. But the department, Murphy says, is a bureaucracy, and as such does not have the means to help beyond the processing the papers...