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...tens of millions. The son, now 36 and an Assistant Secretary of the Interior, helps manage a budget of $6 billion and devised the offshore-oil leasing scheme that produced up to $10 billion in federal revenues last year. A while back, West flew over Alaska's Beaufort Sea, the site of oil exploration, and decided he was in the middle of one of the last great Western adventures. "My God," he said, "it is exhilarating...
...long-range Soviet-built artillery had been eliminated from southern Lebanon. But the P.L.O. put up fierce resistance and remained an organized military force, confronting the Israelis in Sidon and Tyre while blocking their advance at Damur. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin flew by helicopter into 800-year-old Beaufort Castle, a stone-walled mountaintop fortress from which the P.L.O. had often directed fire at northern Israel...
...peace keepers. Callaghan had instructed his contingents, according to a U.N. report, "to block advancing forces, take defense measures and stay in their positions until their safety was seriously imperiled." Most of his soldiers apparently had no difficulty deciding that they were immediately "imperiled." The Israelis moving toward Beaufort Castle passed UNIFIL posts fortified only with ironic signs: U.N. ZONE: ARMED PERSONNEL DO NOT ENTER...
...Alaska, 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle and barely 1,400 miles from the North Pole. Five hundred yards to the north, an iceberg, bleached turquoise by the cold and shaped like a baby's cradle, rocks along. There is no driftwood or trash in the freezing Beaufort Sea. Nature all but forbade man to sail in this place, and Captain Walt Kardonsky knows...
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