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President Carter has called the issue "the conservation decision of the century." At stake were more than 100 million acres of virgin forest, magnificent mountains and prospective oilfields in the country's largest state. The future of Alaskan lands was also one of the most contentious environmental questions of the day. Conservationists maintained that Alaska's timbered coastline and tundra needed strong federal protection. Developers and businessmen, supported by Alaska's top elected officials, argued that the Federal Government should not lock up virgin land before its soil and mineral wealth could be assessed. After almost four...
McGinnis's idea is not totally original; the New Yorker's John McPhee, perhaps the most highly-praised non-fiction writer in America, travelled above the Arctic circle to find the subject matter for Coming Into the Country, his account of the Alaskan wilderness. There have been others, but McPhee was the most notable. His account was of the wild North and the wild people who lived there, full of mines and surveyors and lumberjacks and fishermen and bears...
...only regrettable save for the few flashes of insight he does show, glimmerings of the power and potential that lie below his surface. Seemingly, McPhee's deepest feelings are for the woods, streams and mountains of America-at any rate, The Pine Barrens and Coming Into the Country, an Alaskan saga, are his two finest books. In Giving Good Weight, midway through an account of a canoe trip on which he was accompanied by boatloads of wealthy Harvardians, McPhee shows his understanding of his own mood and of the power of the forest: "Physical labor as a bringer of sleep...
...just for the trove of confidential and embarrassing information it turned up. Coke Chairman J. Paul Austin, who was probably more red-faced than anyone, also happens to be a director of Dow Jones. Appearing often on Page One too, are offbeat profiles (an industrial spy, an Alaskan fur trapper), social problems (inflation's ravages, the trials of the elderly) and exotica from all over (crime in Hong Kong's Walled City, exiles working to restore the monarchy to Russia...
...might have on Ohio voters in that state's June 3 presidential primary, expressed their displeasure to DOE. The department then quickly overruled the Office of Hearings and Appeals decision and reversed the reversal. It is now considering two proposals that would raise the fees of North Slope Alaskan crude. Both would hike gasoline prices for refiners like Sohio but would lower prices for others. Meanwhile, Sohio has already raised gasoline prices a nickel a gallon...