Word: wien
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tours. A less arduous expedition offered by Wien Air Alaska flies vacationers to Katmai and its Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes, an awesome volcanic area where U.S. astronauts trained for moon landings. A three-day outing for $250 combines a stay at Katmai's resort hotel with hikes into a wilderness hundreds of miles from other human habitation. And there are organized dogsled trips: Anchorage's Denali's Dog Tours offers four days from Mount McKinley Park headquarters into Toklat Lake...
There are no roads linking Barrow to the outside world; ships can get in and out only two months a year. The only year-round connection to the outside is by air, and every day a Wien Consolidated Airlines Boeing 737 jet puts down on an airstrip just outside the settlement. The community's leaders say that the remoteness of Barrow is probably the main reason for one of the area's most perplexing problems-excessive drinking. Of the 700-odd arrests made by Barrow police over the past year, almost all were related to drinking. An important...