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...privately rather than through the usual Pentagon procurement process. A House Armed Services subcommittee voted last week to ask the Air Force to hold a fly-off between the F-20 and the F-16 in order to do some comparison shopping for fiscal 1987. Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska reflects sentiment in the Senate for backing the F-20. In a hearing last month, he warned the Air Force, "You're going to get some F-20s this / year whether you like...
...embargoes, the Administration is equally convinced that support for the rebels remains essential. As one of his last official acts last week Langhorne A. Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, declared that "the President still firmly believes in support for the freedom fighters." Motley, a former Alaska real estate developer who resigned in order to return to business, has had his . differences with both hard-liners and "ultra liberals," but had no fundamental disagreements with Administration policy on Nicaragua. His replacement, Elliott Abrams, currently Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, is known...
...more ambitious ventures. Stanford offers engineering courses by closed-circuit TV so that employees in high-tech companies throughout Silicon Valley can attend class without leaving their place of work. The University of Washington gives televised courses to supplement the education of medical students in places as distant as Alaska, Idaho and Montana...
...grueling 1,100-mile course traversed two mountain ranges, the Yukon River and the frozen Norton Sound. Besting 61 starters and unusually bad weather conditions, as well as overcoming a gender barrier, was Libby Riddles, 28, the first woman ever to win Alaska's Anchorage-to-Nome Iditarod dogsled race. Two weeks into the 18-day trek, while her competition opted to sit out a fierce snowstorm, the musher from Teller, Alaska, pressed on with her team of 13 dogs. Out on the ice, almost unable to see, "I kept telling myself how foolish I was being for doing this...
Home games this year were 99.6 percent sold out, with a couple of contests against Northern Arizona and Alaska Fairbanks falling a few dozen fans short of the 5639-seat capacity of the Arena...