Word: alaskas
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This observation was made by a Congressman opposed to a plan to open up the flatlands of Alaska's Kenai Moose Range for oil prospecting, an activity that would surely drive the moose into nearby mountains. The remark would not be very important except that it was aimed at Alaska Governor Walter Hickel, 49, who tried last summer to open the oil-rich range to the oil industry. This week Hickel, who is Richard Nixon's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, comes in for a barrage of questions when he appears for confirmation hearings before the Senate...
...incensed the nation's conservationists, who instinctively distrust an Interior Secretary with a less than total commitment to preserve what is left of nature in the U.S. Though Hickel is a successful businessman and for the past two years has been a hard-driving and popular Governor of Alaska, he is regarded among conservationists as the archetype of a state that is impatient to tap its latent wealth. There is so much of Alaska for so few Alaskans that they have never seemed to care very much whether some of the state...
...question Hickel closely on 14 counts. These range from a natural-gas franchise given one of his companies to charges that, while he was Governor, the state built roads for the benefit of his properties. Hickel's critics complain that he has been far too friendly with Alaska's oil operators to be given the Interior Secretary's wide regulatory powers over the entire $50 billion petroleum industry. Hickel has also alienated many Northeastern Senators by his opposition to a scheme for cutting fuel costs in New England by permitting imports of foreign oil through a free...
Then, too, Hickel's critics look askance at the Governor's fight against a ruling by outgoing Interior Secretary Stewart Udall blocking title to 262 million acres of federal rangeland that Alaska had earmarked as its own as part of a 1958 statehood land grant. Udall has insisted on holding the ranges in escrow until there is a settlement of claims by Alaska's 55,000 Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos, who argue that the land was originally theirs. Oil companies covet leases to 58 million of the disputed acres that are part of the Arctic North Slope...
Secretary Hickel releases plans to divert the Mississippi River through Alaska and build a $500-million amusement park called "Tom Sawyer's Bargain Basement." Selective Service rejects David Eisenhower's claim that he is a Quaker by marriage, and dispatches young Eisenhower to South Vietnam...