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...wilderness. The bill would place stringent limits on how the land could be developed by oil companies looking for new sources of petroleum, as well as by lumber and mining interests. The most sweeping land conservation legislation in U.S. history, the bill would preserve an area slightly larger than California. It would also protect the great caribou herds in the Arctic Wildlife Range, the spawning beds of the Pacific salmon in the Misty Fjords along the state's southeast coast, the nesting grounds of the dwindling numbers of American bald eagles on Admiralty Island and the habitat...
...bill's sponsors, had feared the gasoline shortage would give industry lobbyists a powerful argument for approval of an opposing measure that would have opened 63 million acres of Alaska's wildlife refuges to oil exploration and hard-rock mining. With long lines forming outside California gas stations, Udall warned, "This is the worst time to bring this bill...
Republican Don Young, the state's lone Congressman, called the bill "illegal and immoral" and "a terrible thing for the people of Alaska." Udall sharply disagreed, noting that the federal lands left untouched by the bill are "twice the size of California and can be used as they please by the 400,000 people of Alaska." Referring to the region covered by the bill, Udall added: "The 220 million people of America are entitled to the preservation of the last great areas of wild beauty...
...California Republican S.I. Hayakawa, who reported assets of between $250,000 and $1.5 million...
Mattel, the California toy company, is trying to hang on to the kids who have mellowed into grownups. Its Barbie doll has been joined by a line of electronic toys for adults. The $500 Intellivision, a computer that plugs into a TV set, will play roulette, compute income taxes and do estate planning. Winemakers are also preparing to reap a rich harvest as the Pepsi generation trades its aluminum pop tops for corkscrews. By 1985 domestic wine is projected to be a $6 billion industry, up from $3 billion today. "Sales of the better wines can only be described...