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...Some Alaskans talk about their guns the way stock-car racing buffs talk about their cars. But it's nothing to wonder at, because hunting is a major recreation for Alaskans, as well as a means of getting food for many. If some Alaskans like to carry their rifles hung in the back windows of their pick-up trucks even when it's not hunting season, it's not so much a demonstration of militance as of the kind of spirit that prompted one Alaskan candidate in this fall's elections to pass out bumper stickers with the legend...
Perhaps Fairbanks can still claim to be on the edge of the last American frontier-it's the largest settlement in the Alaskan interior, the last real town before the roads end, the jumping-off point for the development of the Prudhoc Bay oilfields to the North. There are still a few old log houses on the main streets of town. But more conspicuous are the new housing developments where small kids ride bicycles with high-rise handlebars and long seats like the ones on their older brothers' Hondas and Harleys; more conspicuous are three perfectly-manicured Little League fields...
...sued eight companies accused of contaminating navigable waters with mercury. Despite a parochial interest in seeing a trans-Alaska pipeline laid to the North Slope, Hickel delayed the project for nearly a year, demanding that oil companies devise a pipeline system that would do minimum damage to the fragile Alaskan tundra...
Some suspected that oil interests offended by Hickel had pressured the White House. But there is no evidence of that. If anything, oil companies would have preferred to have Hickel stay for the time being, since he was on the verge of reaching an accommodation on the Alaskan pipeline...
Stirred Flurries. Hickel's case is the least baffling, for the outspoken Alaskan has been on thin ice since his renowned letter to Nixon last May was leaked to the press even before the President had seen it. With the nation's campuses in an anti-Administration uproar over the Cambodian invasion, Hickel wrote Nixon that he had failed to give the young a hearing, and was ignoring some of his Cabinet members, Hickel included, into the bargain. (Hickel took up pen only when he was denied a meeting with Nixon.) During the fall campaign, Hickel traveled more...