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Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, in comments reported Wednesday, advocated publicly for the first time the "global double zero" arms control option, offering to scrap Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Asia if the United States agrees not to deploy 100 medium-range warheads in Alaska...
...missions in Viet Nam and did a stint with the Air Force's Thunderbirds precision-flying team, is expected to win easy confirmation. The Senators, however, put McArtor on notice. "You have got a crisis on your hands," declared Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat. Warned Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican: "If it remains as fouled up for the rest of the summer as it has been in June, we will have ((legislation)) by September to answer it so it doesn't happen again next year." Congress is currently considering scores of separate proposals, including such measures as allocating more...
...major arguments have always taken place between Congress and the White House, but now special interests also use the courts to nibble at Executive power. Environmentalists filed suit in 1971 to prevent Nixon from conducting an underground nuclear test on Alaska's Amchitka Island. The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 in the President's favor, but the battle left a bitter residue. Patrick Buchanan, then a White House aide, recalls asking Nixon what he would have done had the court gone against him. The President's angry response: "I was going to fire it anyway." That, perhaps...
Edward B. Rasmuson '62, chairman of the National Bank of Alaska, criticized liberals and environmentalists for attempting to limit the oil industry in his native state of Alaska...
...also about hunting and listing. He is currently at the top of the big-time birding tree, holder of the records for most species seen in a lifetime (777) and the most species seen in a single year (711) in the American Birding Association checklist area -- Canada, Alaska and the Lower 48 states. The world of listing is presided over by the approximately 8,000- member ABA and its magazine, Birding, which ranks birders by species seen, prints erudite articles on how to distinguish different birds in the field and sets rules for the listing game. One such rule...