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Clinton doesn't bestow his trust blindly. He has immersed himself in economic details over the past six years. Rubin recalls a fishing vacation he took last summer as the President was trying to formulate his response to the Russian crisis. As Rubin stood streamside near Homer, Alaska, his Secret Service agent's phone rang with call after call from the White House. Rod in hand, Rubin helped Clinton develop a clear understanding of the options. "He doesn't just sit by and sign off on policy," Rubin explains. And, Rubin says, Clinton has been willing to make politically tough...
...attack on roads and mines, however, that has made him a lightning rod for industry critics and their powerful congressional allies. "His objective is to terminate harvesting in the national forests," fumes Alaska's Frank Murkowski, chairman of the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Murkowski and others have grilled Dombeck in more than 20 hearings, demanded thousands of documents and ordered a major investigation of his agency...
...even to contact U.S.O.C. members," Wilson recalls. "So we go to Indianapolis in June of 1985, and we lose." He was baffled. "Anchorage is dark, doesn't have any venues, doesn't have nearly the culture we did." Back in Salt Lake, Wilson started hearing about fishing trips to Alaska by U.S.O.C. delegates, hunting trips, helicopter rides. "Whether those were rumors or not, we said, 'We screwed up. Anchorage schmoozed and we lost. Next round, we're going to schmooze big time...
...must remember that the American method of government is not one of consensus but one of representation. It is to be hoped that our Representatives sometimes cast a vote based not on political expediency but on principle. MARVIN YODER Galena, Alaska...
...WINNER] As a scary place that most people haven't been to yet, Alaska is more appropriate...