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...squabble between the two seafaring neighbors was the latest episode in a long-running argument over valuable fishing rights in the cold waters near the Arctic Circle. For the third time since World War II, Iceland and Britain are near blows in what citizens of both nations call...
...pipeline to the ice-free port of Valdez was first proposed in 1969. The line has been stalled in part by environmental issues. Tanker traffic would almost certainly result in oil spillage and leaks from the pipeline-it would traverse three earthquake zones-could endanger the ecology of the arctic tundra. Yet the conservationists' biggest weapon turned out to be a narrow technicality: the required right of way would exceed the legal maximum 54-ft. width. The Administration looked to the Supreme Court to get around that legal scruple, but last week the court refused to review a lower...
...from 1942 until the mid-'60s; following a stroke; in Manhattan. "I wanted to point a camera," Elisofon once said, "at things that I thought needed attention." Quitting a career as a commercial photographer, he covered World War II for LIFE in Africa as well as in the Arctic, Europe and the Pacific. A camera artist who had a unique mastery of color, Elisofon had a particular passion for the Dark Continent and its artifacts, which he lovingly recorded in his 1958 book The Sculpture of Africa...
Siberia also has the world's largest deposits of iron ore and coal, virgin forests as large as all of Europe, half the world's gold production and diamond deposits matching those of South Africa. Half a dozen great rivers, all flowing north into the Arctic Ocean, may one day provide hydroelectric power across the Bering Strait for Canada and the U.S. It is not so wild a dream. Already the Russians have built the world's largest dams on the Yenisei and Angara rivers at Krasnoyarsk and Bratsk, and a third one is going...
Extracting the wealth of Siberia is a matter not just of money and machinery, of course, but also of people, and the cruelty of life in the Arctic area is enough to deter many. Siberia boosters used to claim that the population would climb from its present 25 million to about 60 million by the year 2000; the current rate of growth is unlikely to produce more than about half that number. All Siberian workers, from a waitress in Yakutsk to a drilling engineer at Nadym, get "northern bonuses" that double and triple Moscow wage rates, but the labor turnover...