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Everything about Alaska is extreme. It is physically as big as Texas, California and Montana combined?586,000 sq. mi. Just one of Alaska's scores of blue-green glaciers is the size of Holland; one wildlife preserve could hold Hungary. Alaska's 33,000-mile coastline doubles that of all the coterminous U.S. While Port Walter in the southern panhandle is flooded by 18 feet of annual rainfall, the wind-dried North Slope is an Arctic desert that gets only four inches of precipitation a year. At Fort Yukon in the vast central plateau region, temperatures plummet from 100?...
...honor the centennial of Canada's vast and sparsely settled Northwest Territories (1.3 million sq. mi.; pop. 33,000), Elizabeth II of England this week is pushing farther north than any of her predecessors have ever gone on a ceremonial tour. On her ten-day, 4,000-mile itinerary is a stop at the village of Resolute Bay, 700 miles north of the Arctic Circle, where the entourage (100) will nearly equal the residents...
...when the U.S. Government began buying land in earnest, federal holdings have grown enormously, and so have the headaches. Today the Government owns 755 million acres of land, one-third of the nation. The result is a poorly managed tangle of jurisdictions, contradictions and bureaucracies; a 100-by-50-mi. area of southeast Idaho, for example, is administered by more than 100 federal, state, county and local agencies...
...years ago, when the tiny (720 sq. mi.) Indian Ocean island won independence from Britain, one might have got the idea that it was serving as a model for a less elevated region. Ringed by silver sands and azure waters, dotted with scarlet flame trees and emerald sugar plantations, it was suffering nonetheless from economic stagnation, staggering unemployment and mounting racial tensions. At least 24 people died in savage riots just before the independence ceremonies, and Britain had to fly in troops from Singapore to restore order...
...Gandhi last week offered technical aid in improving the island's airport and expanding its agriculture. That should solidly anchor New Delhi's presence on Mauritius. With Britain committed to a military withdrawal east of Suez, which will turn the Indian Ocean into a 28-million-sq.-mi. power vacuum, other nations are soon likely to be seeking footholds for themselves...