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...vast schools of herring that normally return to Alaska's Prince William Sound this time of year didn't show up. Nor did they return last spring. Here's what's showing up in their stead: dozens and dozens of attorneys, paralegals, secretaries, biologists, economists and officials of the Exxon Corp. They are settling in for the summer to write the final chapter in the story of the nation's largest oil spill, which began in 1989 when the Exxon Valdez spilled more than 11 million gal. of inky black crude into the pristine Prince William Sound...
What is known in Anchorage as "the little people's trial" will begin this week in federal court. Back in the fall of 1991, the state and federal governments settled their lawsuits against Exxon for $1 billion. But 12,000 fishermen, deckhands, business owners, landowners and Alaska natives who claim to have suffered from the spill are hoping a jury will hand them an additional $15 billion from the company's till...
Vivan M. Lee of Fairbanks, Alaska said theHarvard dorms are "really incredible" compared toYale's. Layne S. Staley of Englewood, N.J. said"the women at Harvard look a lot better...
...next case was worse. June Weinstock, 52, a journalist and environmentalist from Fairbanks, Alaska, had innocently caressed a boy's head on March 29 after taking photographs of children at a market in the northeastern town of San Cristobal Verapaz. Suddenly, a peasant woman shouted that her son had disappeared. A crowd gathered and began to beat Weinstock. Moments later when the missing boy reappeared, the mother tried to stop the attack. But the mob was egged on, according to a government investigator, by state road workers who threatened to burn Weinstock alive. She was stripped, stoned, stabbed repeatedly, then...
...devastated in the aftermath of the Cold War. The nationalist, anti-Semitic themes Zhirinovsky emphasizes are little different from those played up by the Fuhrer. As Hitler promised to recreate a "greater Germany" be annexing parts of France and Czechoslovakia, so does Zhirinovsky pledge to retake to Baltics and Alaska for Russia. As Hitler spoke of the "Jewish world danger," so does Zhirinovsky attack alleged international "pro-Zionist" conspiracies...