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...colleges and helps fund Sesame Street, the TV program that delights and instructs the nation's small fry. There are other programs for ethnic studies and for mastering the metric system. Human development services provide help for the handicapped, as well as runaway youths, abused children, Indian tribes and Alaskan natives. HEW also runs Head Start, a program that prepares disadvantaged youngsters for school. It offers vocational rehabilitation, "meals on wheels" for older people who cannot leave their homes, vending stands to be operated by the blind. In sum, HEW is as broad and varied as American life itself, surely...
...that the trouble-plagued trans-Alaska pipeline is in full operation, Alaskan oil is flowing in great volume overland. But its journey to U.S. West Coast ports may soon be interrupted at sea -by icebergs in the tanker shipping lanes. The source of these floating hazards is the Columbia Glacier, a 425-sq.-mi. mass of ice that ends less than seven miles from the tanker lanes for Port Valdez...
...same for California oil as they'do for imports-or not that much less. Few buyers want the California crude even at slightly cheaper prices because it is "sour," high-sulfur oil. It is costlier to refine because it produces less gasoline and other clean fuels than Alaskan oil and higher-quality imports. Its primary end-product is a high-polluting residual fuel...
...fact, there are several surpluses, amounting daily to some 500,000 bbl. of Alaskan crude, which must be shipped through the canal; at least 100,000 bbl. of California crude, which is shut in; and 50,000 bbl. of residuals. Jimmy Carter is considering federal action to ease the glut...
This would not solve the immediate problem of finding an inexpensive and efficient way to move Alaskan oil to markets where it is really needed. Many plans have been considered, especially because Alaskan oil shipped through the Panama Canal is even costlier than OPEC oil on the East Coast. One idea is a three-way trade: Alaskan oil could be shipped to Japan, replacing OPEC oil that would then be sent to the U.S. East Coast. Problem: the export of Alaskan crude would raise a political storm...