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Today 46 of the 50 states -- all but Alaska, Wyoming and North and South Dakota -- boast commercial operations that produce wine from grapes. Some are ma-and-pa vintners with an annual capacity of 1,000 cases or less. Others are industrial giants, like Washington's prizewinning Chateau Ste. Michelle, which turns out 500,000 cases a year of 14 different varietals. Most of these regional vintages, comparable to Europe's little country wines, have only local repute. But the White House has proudly served Cabernets from Texas, Pinot Noirs from Oregon and Chardonnays from Virginia and New York...
...ALASKA, CONNECTICUT...
...same combination worked for Alaska's Walter Hickel, who served from 1966 to 1969 as the state's Republican Governor and later as Nixon's Secretary of the Interior. Though he did not enter the race until mid-September, Hickel led in the polls by spending at least $800,000. Hickel ran under the banner of the Alaskan Independence Party -- a secessionist fringe group -- but used it merely as a flag of convenience: he signaled to voters that he was basically in accord with G.O.P. positions and promised to fight for further oil development in Alaska...
...instance, she encouraged students to writeto the governor of Alaska, where overhunting hasdecimated the wolf population in the past year.She also invited audience members to drop by andvolunteer at a wolf sanctuary in the Sangre DeCristo Mountains in southern Colorado...
...Federal Government maintains that some conservation groups were told of the studies and agreed that they were necessary, but other environmentalists angrily reject the need for the projects. Says Allen Smith, Alaska regional director of the Wilderness Society: "I don't understand why they have to go out and kill a bunch of wildlife to prove what everybody already knows -- that a bunch of wildlife was killed...