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...state's powerful oil industry. Meanwhile Weaver has run a poignant series on the survival struggle by the state's Eskimos and launched a folk-adventure column that recently took readers on an open-boat whale hunt. Then last week he dropped a fresh bomb with a front-page scoop about MarkAir, an Anchorage-based airline. According to the News, the U.S. State Department paid Mark-Air to fly supplies to a Nicaraguan contra base in Honduras...
...uniforms sweeping up cigarette butts in front of the imitation- Aztec Mexican pavilion. (Average "life-span" of a piece of street trash before being removed: 4 min.) During the Magic Kingdom's afternoon parade of Disney characters, a sanitation man in old-fashioned vest and black pants materializes to scoop up some horse dung. When the crowd cheers him, he doffs his hat and salutes...
Kampelman the Democrat is out of the Henry ("Scoop") Jackson mold: like the late Washington Senator, he favors liberal social policies while taking a hawkish stance on national defense. He was not always so promilitary. The son of a hat salesman in the Bronx, Kampelman had graduated from New York University and was working his way through law school when he was drafted in 1942. A Jew, he cited religious reasons in declaring himself a conscientious objector. Says he: "I just couldn't see myself killing anyone." Rather than fight, he volunteered for alternative service in a program...
...greater care should be exercised to ensure that a terrorist does not use the interview simply for his own means. If Correspondent Champ asked tough, probing questions of Abbas--about the murder of Passenger Klinghoffer, for example--the televised excerpts did not reflect it. NBC may have won a scoop, but it lost the larger battle for first-rate journalism...
...each time, a Crimson player had to skate the length of the rink, scoop up the puck and bring it back...