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DIED. William Egan, 69, Alaska's first elected Governor and son of a gold miner, who led the drive to statehood for his vast, thinly populated territory; of cancer; in Anchorage. To push the cause, he organized and presided over a convention in 1955-56 to write a constitution and elect Senators and a Representative as if the territory were already a state; named a "Senator," he went to Washington to lobby for the statehood bill that finally passed in June 1958. Elected to three gubernatorial terms (1958, 1962,1970), he dominated the state Democratic Party for more than...
...election-year vulnerabilities. For a solid week on the evening news, he appeared not as the bellicose ideologue who can somehow manage to sleep through crises, but rather as the pragmatic peacemaker who can travel half the globe with nary a yawn or a stumble. Stopping over in Fairbanks, Alaska, on the return flight, he described his trip in terms that sounded suspiciously like a campaign speech. "My visit to China has convinced me that our future is bright," he told 500 community leaders packed into a local auditorium. "America is on the edge of a new era of peace...
...result of the compromise, the next year could see more acres designated wilderness areas than at any one time in the history of the system (with the exception of the 56 million acres of Alaska added in 1980). One beneficiary may be Ronald Reagan, out to shed his anticonservation image: over the next few months, it will be no surprise to see him amid woods and lakes, ceremoniously signing one wilderness bill after another...
...football, then exhibited a leisurely overhand crawl through the Pacific surf. The scene seemed reminiscent of the pictures from 1966 that purported to show Chairman Mao, then 72, swimming vigorously in the Yangtze River. During their day and two nights in the 50th state (they stop in the 49th, Alaska, this week), Reagan and Nancy chatted with Actors Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.) and Tom Selleck (Magnum...