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...will try to regain its dominance in the Ivies in 1987-'88. To help, the aquamen pulled in seven freshmen: Dainel Hume of Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas Killion of Fairfield, Conn.; Johnathan Manson of Decatur, Ga.; Gregory Tull of Phoenixville, Penn.; Paul Watson of Armonu, Penn.; Albert Wolf of Bethel Park, Penn.; and Jose Zumpano of Miami...
...Bethel, a town scattered across the Kuskokwim River delta, there is apprehension about what budget cuts will mean. A region in western Alaska the size of Oregon, with about as many residents as Rutland, Vt. (pop. 18,436), the delta is representative of problems throughout the state. For example, the just completed $4 million Yukon-Kuskokwim youth correctional facility will probably never open its doors. There is no state money to operate it. "So much of our economy has been artificial," says City Councilwoman Diane Carpenter, speaking of a generation of pork-barrel construction projects expensively built on pilings above...
Some of that dislocation will occur in the 56 villages for which Bethel serves as a hub. Tony Vaska, 38, a Yupik Indian who was born upriver in Kalskag, earned a doctorate at Stanford and now is the interim Bethel city manager, sees it coming. "The villages are going to feel it the most as teachers' aides get cut. And 99% of them are native." That will ripple back to Bethel. "Everything is one big question mark," says Dave Foster, 46, general manager of Swanson's, the largest retail store in town. "I don't think we've seen...
...living rooms and kitchens around Bethel, people are plotting ways to extricate themselves from their collective predicament. Former Teacher Harold Sparck sees the Bering Sea and its fisheries as a rich alternative source of income. Steve Constantino, 35, an attorney and president of the local Chamber of Commerce, is touting tourism and the lure of about 100 species of birds that spend their summers in the region. (He makes no mention of the score or so species of mosquitoes that share the turf.) Rosie Porter, the feisty editor and publisher of the weekly Tundra Drums and proprietor of the Porter...
Trying to put the Armageddon issue into perspective, one moderate evangelical, New Testament Professor A. Berkeley Mickelsen of Minnesota's Bethel Theological Seminary, points out that the accounts of Christ's return are rich in symbolism. Says he: "If you're not careful, pretty soon it's Buck Rogers. To take apocalyptic language and make it scientific language is wrong." He is perturbed at the prophecy hunters' emphasis on global conflict. "Scripture teaches that great nations must treat compassionately the oppressed of the earth," says Mickelsen. "When Christ really does break into this scene, there...