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...SUPREME COURT recently gave truckers a green light to destroy the interstate highway system. With a February 21 ruling that rebuffed Connecticut's bid to keep double-trailer trucks off its highways, the high court decided it will sit by to watch a 42.500-mile highway system crumble further...
Studds's strong record of service to the area over the last 10 years has made him extremely popular throughout his district, Studds is particularly strong in New Bedford, where fishermen associate him with helping institute in 1974 the 200-mile-limit on U.S. waters, which kept foreign boats out of the fishing zones off the Cape...
Last week Alfonsin had some proposals of his own, most of them unacceptable to the British. Among them: an end to Britain's 150-mile exclusion zone around the islands, replacement of the Falklands garrison of some 4,300 British troops and workers by a U.N. force, and a halt to construction of a $319 million civilian-military Falklands airport. Neither side was budging on the bedrock issue: Argentina's claim to the Falklands and Britain's firm position that the islands have belonged to Britain without interruption since 1833, and that at the very least...
...rafted 3,700 miles down the Amazon River, walked the 1,750-mile length of Japan, and traveled 7,500 miles by dogsled from Greenland to Alaska, a harrowing, 18-month journey during which he was forced to kill several of his ailing sled dogs for food. Narrow escapes were plentiful. In 1978, when he became the first man to reach the North Pole by trekking alone across the frozen Arctic Ocean, a polar bear raided his camp and mauled his sleeping...
Uemura's original plans for this winter had been to attempt a solo 1,200-mile dogsled run across the South Pole from the Ross Sea to the Weddell Sea. But his early planning, which needed the cooperation of the Argentine government, was disrupted by the Falkland Islands war. Instead, Uemura set his sights on the Alaskan peak, which he had scaled alone before, in the summer of 1970. "I know that in the eyes of many people I would only look like a Don Quixote," Uemura once replied when asked what drove him. "But I always want...