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ALASKA / ESKIMOS RETURN TO USSR / WNT
04/25/1988
ABC
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INTV W/ ESKIMOS AND SU ABOUT THE FROZEN BORDER BETWEEN ALASKA AND SIBERIA. 01:45:51:09 Intv w/ an Eskimo about the 1948 closing of the border between Alaska and Siberia. 01:49:59:23 Cuts and reversals. 01:51:15:15 Intv w/ Alaskan Jim Stimpfle about the economic and peaceful benefits the opening of the border between Alaska and Siberia will have. He says the trip is less than one half hour away. 01:55:37:02 He says the Eskimos have always traded and visited w/ families on either side of the Bering Strait. 01:58:45:22 Two shot and reversal. 01:59:58:11 Su John Martin. 02:03:36:12 Vs of pedestrians in Nome. Ms of street signs w/ the mileage to Foreign cities. Cu of the sign to Siberia and 164 miles next to it. 02:04:27:26 Ms of the ext of a trading post. Travel shot of streets in a business section. WS of a truck w/ its headlights on. 02:06:19:00 Ext shots of the Alaska national guard armory. CI: PERSONALITIES: STIMPFLE, JIM. BORDERS: ALASKA / SIBERIA (ABOUT). HUMANKIND: ESKIMOS. SCENICS: NOME, ALASKA. US RELATIONS: USSR.
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