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...Last week Morton moved on another important Alaskan question. He issued the department's ninevolume, $9,000,000 "impact statement" on the proposed trans-Alaska oil pipeline. The statement, a prerequisite to any major environmental decision, sets forth no specific recommendations. But its analysis of the various routes for taking oil from the North Slope appears to pave the way for Administration approval of the 789-mile pipeline that the Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., a consortium of seven oil companies, wants to build from Prudhoe Bay to the ice-free port of Valdez in southern Alaska. Conservationists say that...
...ecology group called Aduntusan-a Cherokee word for "earth spirit"-has developed the idea of organizing 350,000 young Americans of voting age to migrate north to the 49th state. The newcomers would settle there, gain political control through their voting power and, among other things, ensure that the Alaskan environment is never damaged by oil companies and land developers...
...project remains mired in environmental controversy. Even if permission to build the pipeline is granted by the Department of the Interior within the next several months, as appears likely, the project stands to be delayed. A series of court injunctions won by such diverse groups as the Wilderness Society, Alaskan Eskimos and local fishermen could put off completion of the line until at least...
...Former Alaskan Senator Ernest Gruening '07, one of two Senators who voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964, told the crowd that the only hope to end the war "lies in the people and in demonstrations like this...
Hickel finished high school with "something below a C average," won a Golden Gloves championship, and left to seek his fortune. Penniless but self-confident, he arrived in Alaska in 1940. By 1953 he was a respected businessman (real estate and construction) and a leading proponent of Alaskan statehood. Though politics at first did not appeal to him ("I never was much of a joiner"), a California Republican named Richard Nixon did. Hickel worked for Nixon during the 1960 campaign and before the one in 1964. Taking time off from the national scene, he surprised everyone but himself...