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...state government can begin to receive oil royalties and taxes, Alaska's Democratic Governor William Egan recently made a startling proposal: that the state of Alaska should build and own the pipeline itself by raising the necessary $1.7 billion through the sale of bonds. Egan told TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager last week: "I simply don't see how we can consider such a huge movement of the people's oil through Alaska without making sure that the profits that arise from the transport go to the people...
...feet beneath tiny Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. The signal was given and in one-tenth of a millionth of a second, Cannikin, code name for the most powerful underground nuclear test ever held by the U.S., exploded with the force of 5 million tons of TNT. TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager reported from the command bunker on Amchitka that half a second after detonation the earth heaved upward, hiding the test site in a curtain of dust and water, and aftershocks rumbled to the bunker 23 miles away. Seismographs registered a shock of the magnitude of seven on the Richter...
...premarital sex and drugs are out, and many have quite strict rules: up early, to bed by ten or eleven, assigned chores, a certain number of mandatory Bible readings or prayer gatherings. Yet they generally are happy places. "It is a gentle place, this Solid Rock," reports TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager. "The voices are quiet, the words that recur are 'love' and 'blessing' and 'the Lord' and 'sharing' and 'peace' and 'brothers and sisters.'" Twelve "brothers and sisters" live in Solid Rock, six men, four women, two babies, the children of unmarried mothers. The men of the commune work...
...Karsten Prager of TIME'S New York bureau lived until recently in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, a part of the city that is much like a suburb. In East Orange, he found a suburb that is much like a city...
...talking with convicts, guards, prison officials and penologists, the correspondents were driven to personal reflection on potential alternatives to the present system. Karsten Prager of the New York bureau, who toured Car Manhattan's infamous Tombs detention house and North Carolina's progressive Wake Advancement Center, was struck by "the differences between what there is and what there might be." So was Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson, who wrote the cover story with the assistance of Contributing Editor James Simon and Researcher Erika Sanchez. "It seems more shocking and irrational in 1971 than ever before that these conditions...