Authors: Tom Rose
Napoli, Mendes
NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
National Guard, Alaskan
alternative options
hoverbarge and
ice bullet
screw tractor
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
National Marine Mammal Laboratory (Seattle)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
National Ocean Service
National Weather Service
Naval Arctic Research Laboratory (NARL)
Nazis
NBC
NBC Nightly News
Negroponte, John
Network Nine (Australia)
Network Ten (Australia)
news cycle
New York Times
Nightline
NOAA-11 (weather satellite)
Nollman, Jim
NordSea
Northern Pole 31 floating research station
North Slope Borough (NSB)
financial health of
Search and Rescue Department
television studio.
See also
Caudle, Oran
water rationing
Wildlife Management Office
North Slope Mayor's Conference
Northwest Passage
Norway, whaling industry in
NTV
Nuiqsut (Alaska)
N.Y. News Corp.
Obama, Barack
Occidental Petroleum Company
O'Connor, Frank
Odom, Ben
Office of Cabinet Affairs (OCA)
offshore drilling
oil
in Barrow, Alaska
environmentalists and
Eskimos and
offshore drilling
Oliver, Don
Omark Industries
Operation Breakout
cost of
final day
freeing of whales
Operation Breakthrough
outsiders
Palsson, Thorsteinn
parkee
Patsevich, Alexander
Pauley, Jane
PBS
People
magazine
Pepe's North of the Border (Barrow)
permafrost
Petersen, Sigmund
phosphorus burning
Plowden, Campbell
Point Barrow
described
first reports of straggler whales
journalists' final trip to
naming of Barrow, Alaska
route to stranded whales
whale hunting off
polar bears (Nanook)
Polar ice pack
Polar Sea
(icebreaker)
Polar Star
(icebreaker)
political cartoons
pollution
portable water jet pumps
Post, Wiley
Pottinger, Todd
Poutu (middle whale)
press.
See specific reporters, stations, networks, and publications
pressure ridges
Prince William Sound
earthquake (1964)
oil spill (1989)
Prudhoe Bay
Quarles, Gary
radar
radio transmitters
Ramseur, David
Raspberry, William
Rather, Dan
Reagan, Ronald
reporters.
See specific reporters, stations, networks, and publications
Reshetov, Sergei
Richardson, Michael
Richmond Times Dispatch
Rockefeller, John
Rogers, Ed
Rogers, Will
Rolligon (truck)
Rural Alaska Television Network (RATNET)
Russia, acquisition of Alaska from.
See also
Soviet Union
Rutledge, Glenn
Sam & Lee's Chinese restaurant (Barrow)
Sargent, Bob
Sasso, John
satellite transmission
Schaeffer, John
Scott, Willard
screw tractor
Scully, Tucker
seal oil
seasonal affective disorder
Sea World (San Diego)
seismic technologies
Shell Oil
Shepard, Gary
Shim, Steve
shore ice
Shultz, George P.
Siku (largest whale)
Skluzacek, Rick
sled dogs
Smith, Adam
solar power
sound-bites
Soviet Union
collapse of
Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Greenpeace International and
icebreakers
Iceland crisis and
rumors of involvement
whaling industry
sperm whales
spouse sharing
Standard Oil
Standard Oil Trust
State Department, U.S.
state taxes
Stevens, Ted
Stocking, Brad
subsistence whaling
Sumii, Takao
Swaggart, Jimmy
Tate, Fran
television networks.
See specific networks
Tengelmann
3M
toilets, outdoor
Tonight Show, The
Top of the World Hotel (Barrow)
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS)
Trans-Alaska Pipeline
tundra
Turnagain Arm
umiaks (sealskin boats)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Utqiagviq.
See also
Barrow (Alaska)
Valdez (Alaska)
VECO, Inc.
Exxon Valdez
oil spill and
hoverbarge operation
ice bullet
screw tractor
Verity, William
Viking space probe
vitamin D
Vladimir Arseniev
(icebreaker)
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
Wasserman, Dan
wealth effect
Weather Service, U.S.
Webster, Noah
West Germany, boycott of Iceland fish
Weston, Russ
whale hunting
dangers of
modern equipment for
quotas
sharing whale wealth
subsistence whaling
whale conservation versus
whale oil
whales.
See also
bowhead whales; California gray whales;
specific whales and specific types of whales
airlifting
in animal mythology
Beluga
blue
characteristics
drowning
humpback
Inupiat and
killer
meat
migration
parasites
products
slaughtering
sperm
tagging
tranquilizing
whale strandings
whale watching
White House Communication Agency
White House Signal Corps
whiteouts
Wilhelm, Maria
wind power
Withrow, Dave
World News This Evening
World News This Morning
World Society for the Protection of Animals
World War II
World Whale Federation
Yamasaki, Taro
Yukon River basin
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TOM ROSE covered the 1988 whale rescue as a reporter and producer for Japanese TV. He spent the next several months in Alaska interviewing every major player involved in both the rescue and the media coverage of it. Today, Rose, the former publisher and CEO of
The Jerusalem Post,
cohosts the
Bauer & Rose
show on Sirius/XM satellite radio. He writes and comments regularly on American and Middle East politics. He lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.
BIG MIRACLE.
Copyright © 2011 by Tom Rose. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
e-ISBN 9781429938648
First Edition: December 2011