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...boosters have busily promoted this alternative for months. For one thing, building such a pipeline and its service road would open up to development the country's vast potential reserves of Arctic oil and proven reserves of natural gas. For another, it would send Canadian as well as Alaskan oil directly to the U.S.'s thirsty Midwestern markets. Equally important, it would avoid some of the unique problems besetting the proposed Alaska pipeline...
...Alaskan line cannot be built until Congress decides how to settle the ancient claims of the state's natives to public lands along the pipe route. While the Alaskan line would cross four active earthquake zones-posing the danger of breaks and consequent ecological damage-Canada's pipeline would follow the relatively flat MacKenzie River valley along most of its 1,700-mile route. Moreover, the Canada pipe would obviously avoid the peril of foundering tankers spilling their cargoes off the Pacific coast or in the navigationally tricky Puget Sound area...
...able to get around the country more." He is pushing a national health insurance program broader than the President's; he plans further attacks on the Administration's war policies, demanding a fixed date for U.S. withdrawal. His many other concerns-help for American Indians and Alaskan natives, aid to the aged, equal employment opportunities-combined with the continuing potential of the Kennedy mystique, will do little to end speculation. "Let's face it," says one of President Nixon's political intimates. "If Muskie stumbles, the Democrats aren't going to turn to McGovern...
...LITTLE LEAGUER whose game had been rained out took shelter under the open walled shelter of the Fairbanks picnic area one evening, waiting out the shower before riding his bike home. His great-grandfather had been one of the early Alaskan bush-pilots; his father is a carpenter, and his mother is an Eskimo (or Alaskan Native, as all Alaskan Indians and Eskimos are called) from a large Eskimo village to the North. He was a bright and talkative kid who enjoyed telling stories about the winter hunting and trapping trips he makes with his father; flying their small plane...
Like most Alaskan homes. Art's one-room house is built for comfort; the land is built for beauty. It's a small house with a shed on the back and hardly enough space for the stove and sink, the bed, the boys' cribs and toys, and four active people. But the downhill side of the house has a long row of windows, and it's hard to imagine feeling confined when the neighbors they see from their windows are peaks on the far side...