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ANCHORAGE: The Alaskan field has just one east-west strip, so that many landings are made in tricky crosswinds. Until Anchorage completes its new cross strip, it will keep its red rating...
...service, Anchorage's Daily News (TIME, May 17), is having a long dark winter. To reduce expenses, the paper has had to trim its editorial staff from 21 to twelve. Two of the three reporters whose Pulitzer-winning articles revealed the stranglehold that the Teamsters have gained on Alaskan labor have left for better jobs, and the morning Daily News' circulation of 11,600 has shrunk to 7,580. But Publisher Katherine Fanning, 49, who with her husband bought the paper in 1967 after leaving her native Illinois, is fighting back. She has sued Anchorage's other...
Whatever the difficulties, however, this winter's natural-gas crisis is making a powerful point: the energy crunch has plainly arrived, and neither Canada nor the U.S. can afford the kind of wrangling among special-interest groups that held up construction of the Alaskan oil pipeline for nearly four years...
...Charlie, 40, has had many close calls in his ten years as a helicopter pilot in the Alaskan bush, but his luck ran out when a sudden gust of wind caught his chopper near Juneau, causing it to crash in flames. Nearly three-quarters of his body surface was charred, and doctors at Seattle's Harborview Hospital burn center had serious doubts that he would survive. Yet, after 30 long months of treatment, including ten operations just to reconstruct his burned hands, Charlie is back in Alaska piloting helicopters...
...When you talk politics in Alaska, you talk Teamsters," Faulkner said. The Teamsters membership in Alaska constitutes 10 per cent of the registered voting population in the state. Controlling the material supply line to the construction sites, and a large portion of the flow of consumer goods to Alaskan residents, the Teamsters occupy a bottleneck that affords them substantial political clout. "What they say, goes," Faulkner added...