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...Richard Lugar, former mayor of Indianapolis; Maryland's Democratic Congressman Paul Sarbanes; Michigan's Democratic Congressman Donald Riegle; Missouri's Republican Attorney General John Danforth; Pennsylvania's Republican Congressman H. John Heinz III; Texas' Republican Congressman Alan Steelman; Vermont's Democratic Governor Thomas Salmon. Three and possibly five are expected...
Equally uncertain is the outcome of a ballot measure , to repeal a law limiting the number of salmon fishermen in Alaska. Backers of the so-called limited-entry law claim that it is necessary to protect Alaska's rich fishing grounds from being depleted. Opponents insist that the right to choose one's occupation is a basic freedom that must be safeguarded...
...last 200 of 3,955 "suspect" welds-about 10% of the total-that earlier this year were discovered to have been inspected sloppily or not at all. Some are buried under ice-covered river crossings, and they will have to be dug up and, if necessary, rewelded before the salmon return next spring. That chore, wryly says one Alyeska technician, promises to be "another wildly interesting experiment in arctic engineering." It could add to the project's cost, which has already soared from an early estimate of $900 million in the late 1960s to $7.7 billion today. Some officials...
...lost no time in studying Viking 2's new surroundings. With signals that took 21 minutes to traverse the 228,670,000 miles from earth to Mars, they swiveled the lander's cameras around for a better look at the Utopia site and the planet's salmon-pink sky, triggered its seismometers so that it could listen for Marsquakes (similar devices on Viking 1 have failed to work) and switched on its weather station instruments...
Well-muscled and of medium height, with reddish hair and flashing hazel eyes, Sabatini had the look of an outdoorsman. He married twice (in both cases Englishwomen) and had two chil dren. As the money rolled in, he bought an old mill on a famous salmon stream, the river Wye that coils its way between Wales and England; and there, more English now than the English, he played the country gentleman. "It leaves me cold," he told an interviewer in the early 1920s, "that men should write better novels than mine. But I hate a man who can kill more...