The Alaskan Oil Boom and Its Long-Term Costs
Editorial examines Prudhoe Bay oil hopes and the stalled Trans Alaska Pipeline System due to permafrost, earthquakes, and environmental concerns. It notes Alaska’s unemployment rise to 13.6 percent, big state lease revenues, and Secretary Hickel’s cautious stance, with a cautiously optimistic view of eventual oil flow and lasting benefits.
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Prudhoe Bay
Alaska
Beaufort Sea
Arctic Circle
Valdez
Department of the Interior
Interior
Walter Hickel
Yukon River
Stevens Village
TAPS
Hickel
America
Federal FTC weighs banning negative option in clubs
Article outlines FTC proposal to outlaw negative option in mail order book and record clubs. It notes voluntary joinings imply consent to club terms and that unsolicited shipments may violate consumer rights. The piece discusses potential agency action and public hearings before a decision.
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Unfair Trade Practices Division
Federal Trade Commission
Commission
Fe Hasan
FTC
Newspaper Enterprise Asse
Makeup and the mask of youth in a salon encounter
A columnist recalls a salon shopping trip for her college daughter and the cosmetic maze poses to a wary mother. The piece lists products from cleansers to finishes and jokes about aging, beauty rituals, and a Civil War era ransom note, ending with a dated final payment in 1951.
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Joy Stilley
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Frederick
Ex Con Wins Award For Drug Prevention
Richard Perrigo, once jailed over narcotics, now 34 and executive director of Dallas HIP, receives a plaque from the Dallas County Criminal Bar Association for his contribution to drug prevention. HIP operates nationwide from Dallas to Waco and plans branches in Wichita and possibly Ontario, with Perrigo touring schools and speaking to about 327000 students and 80000 adults across seven states.
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Kathleen McCullough
Associated Press
Dallas (Ap
Richard Perrigo
Texas State Penitentiary
Perrigo
Help Is Possible Hip
Dallas County Criminal Bar Association
HIP
Texas Rehabilitation Commission
Flo Wyatt Clisbee
Lausanne
Switzerland
Waco
Longview
Wichita
Kan
Atlanta
Savan
Dallas
City Way
U. S
Mental Health and Mental Retardation Association
Timberlawn Psychiatric Hospital
Garrison Starts Liberator Publication In 1831 Boston
The World Almanac recalls William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in Boston on January 1 1831. He wrote editorials demanding immediate abolition and denouncing slaveholding as a crime. Copyright 1978 Newspaper Enterprise Association.
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William Lloyd Garrison
Liberator
Boston
Garrison
The
United States
Barbs on Pollution and Diplomacy in Morning Column
The column jokes about reducing thermal pollution from certain sources and mockingly notes scarce diplomatic relations. It suggests considering people who live in glass houses and questions how funds could be redirected to all who lead easy lives.
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Aeey
Red Skelton Befriends Young Tumor Victim at Disneyland
Billy Long, a Des Moines boy with a terminal brain tumor likely to go blind soon, visited Red Skelton in his Riverside County home after Governor Reagan arranged Disneyland tickets. Skelton and his wife welcomed the family and shared a cottage tour before tears were shed as they said goodbye.
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Cathedral City
Calif
Billy Long
Red Skelton
Billy
Des Moines
Iowa
California
Disneyland
Comedian Skelton
Ronald Reagan
Skelton
Riverside County
Disneyland Hotel
James Exline
Exline
Nuclear war reshapes leadership with skilled survivors in focus
NEA Washington correspondent reports on a confidential study analyzing who would die and who would survive after a 2000 megaton attack on 70 U.S. cities. It finds that technically skilled groups would be disproportionately killed, risking postwar reconstruction and shifting political balance, underscoring calls for limited city defense and SALT talks.
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U.S
Vienna
United States
Soviet Union
China
A Tale Of Two Genets Revisited In America
The essay contrasts 1793 Citizen Genet with modern writer Jean Genet observing the United States. It notes Genet’s critique of racism, varies on fair trials, and warns against street protests overshadowing justice in the Bobby Seale case. It cites Jackson State, Kent State, Dreyfus, Debs, Rackley, and evolving US justice.
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Genet
France
Washington
America
Britain
Jean Genet
Jackson State College
Augusta
Kent State
Black Panther Party
Bobby Seale
Panthers
Emile Zola
Eugene Debs
Dreyfus
Debs
Connecticut
Alex Rackley
Seale
Washin
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Pecos Enterprise
Bob Moore
Orbrowden
Bonnie Dearley
South Cedar Street
Pecos
Texas
Boyle
Nah
Ontario
Canada
Alcoholics Anonymous
New York
N. Y
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Berry's
J. J
BY Phil Pastoret
Ray Cromley
NEA
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