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After being forced to delay its "spring" season start a week because of arctic weather and bad field conditions, the Harvard softball team yesterday, at long last, began its 1984 campaign...
That in essence was the message sent to the contenders last week by some 3.5 million voters who trooped to polling places from the Arctic Circle to the Florida Keys, from the snow-sodden beaches of Cape Cod to the sun-drenched sands of Hawaii. From Super Tuesday, with contests in nine states, through Saturday, with caucuses in five more, Super Week covered 16 states that will be sending almost 1,000 delegates to San Francisco, out of a total of 3,933. It once loomed as the decisive showdown of the campaign. Mondale initially figured to deliver knockout blows...
...dogsled from Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes were plentiful. In 1978, when he became the first man to reach the North Pole by trekking alone across the frozen Arctic Ocean, a polar bear raided his camp and mauled his sleeping...
...matter how sweeping Admiral Sergei Gorshkov's vision of a navy that can "protect state interests on the seas and oceans," his fleet cannot transcend the limitations of geography . Reports that some 40 freighters and tankers were trapped in ice-clogged Arctic seas last fall underscore the restraints that the absence of warm-water ports has imposed on Russian dreams of being a maritime power. Two of the Soviet Union's four fleets can gam access to the sea only through strategic waterways that are not under Soviet control, the Baltic Sea and the Dardanelles...
...worried that chronic, low-level oil pollution could be devastating to such rich fishing grounds as the Georges Bank off New England. They also fear that drill rigs off Alaska, a site of suspected major reserves, could be wrecked by errant ice floes, spreading crude oil over the fragile Arctic terrain...