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...John S. Crawford, 36, spends weeks at a time as a wildlife photographer in the remote reaches of Alaska, Canada and the Pacific Northwest. He has suffered eleven bone frac tures, and frostbitten toes are a commonplace. Once, when stranded for eight days at the tip of the Alaskan peninsula, he survived by fishing safely while a grizzly bear pack lurked near by. He rarely carries a rifle. "A rifle," he says, "is a crutch. If you've got one, there are likely to be times when you break down and use it. If you just say, 'Hell...
...Alaskan Rivers. Washington officials warned that a boycott could have a severe backlash in Japan, which imports more goods from the U.S. each year ($1.9 billion) than it exports to the U.S. ($1.7 billion). The U.S. State Department, noting tactfully that the Japanese are within the letter of the law, also called on Japanese fishermen to show moderation in working their nets. While the controversy continued, more than 200 Japanese catcher boats busily worked on the permissible side of the 175th degree of longitude. On the coast, U.S. fishermen waited anxiously to see how many sockeye would survive the journey...
...enormous majorities. But some Congressmen were not very happy about it. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken insisted that his affirmative vote was by no means "an endorsement of the costly mistakes of the past." Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse, one of three Senators to vote nay (the others: Alaskan Democrat Ernest Gruening and Wisconsin Democrat Gaylord Nelson), seemed almost hysterical. "My government," he cried, "today stands before the world drunk with military power...
Striding into an Anchorage bank last summer, an Alaskan state trooper pulled out his pistol and seized $6,000. The money belonged to the local bar association, and the trooper was there on orders of the Alaska Supreme Court, which has stirred up a raging feud by its effort to put Alaska's 211 lawyers under the court's tight control. So determined is the court that it has even tried to disband the state bar association...
Arend, 61, a veteran of 30 years in Alaskan law, had no opponent on the ballot; all he needed was a simple majority of the total vote to win a ten-year term. Instead, both Republican and Democratic lawyers blasted Arend across the state, decried the court's jury bond rule, its 3% share in child-support payments and its upholding of the recent conviction of two Seward schoolteachers for the "immoral conduct" of trying to oust the school board and superintendent. The lawyers not only captivated schoolteachers, but they won over enough other Alaskan voters to kick Justice...