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...Howard Metzenbaum, who branded many of them "greed rules." Metzenbaum got the Unocal rule deleted with Packwood's support. One reason: Packwood had a score to settle with California Republican Pete Wilson, the rule's co-sponsor. But otherwise, Senators were of a mind to add rather than subtract. Alaska Republican Ted Stevens complained that the privilege of inserting transition rules in the bill was being hogged by Finance Committee members...
...each of the women, the trip to Alaska's Portage Glacier marked a beginning and an end. There on Memorial Day, Louisiana Democratic Congresswoman Lindy Boggs and Pegge Begich dedicated the $8 million Begich-Boggs Visitor Center, a memorial to their husbands, Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs and Alaska Congressman Nick Begich, who together perished in a plane crash in the area while Boggs was campaigning for Begich in 1972. Lindy Boggs had come, on the anniversary of her husband's death, not only to open the center but help Begich campaign for the seat once held by her husband. Begich...
...when a number of terrorist incidents in Europe followed the bombings in Libya, "we were sitting on [the Europe trip]," Dostart says. They picked up travel pamphlets about Mexico and Alaska and heard out their parents' concerns. Very recently they concluded that terrorism in Europe had sufficiently subsided, and bought non-refundable round-trip tickets for Paris...
Reagan was to return to Washington on today, with only a refueling stop in Anchorage, Alaska, concluding the more than 22,000-mile, 13-day Far Eastern tour, the longest out-of-town trip of his more than five-year presidency...
Although the airline increased its own security precautions, it has not attempted to publicize these efforts. "We don't want to emphasize the problem," said TWA spokesman Bill Brown. He said that although the company is in no grave financial danger, it is adding flights to Alaska and Hawaii to its route schedule...