Eye of the ChinookIn 1978 and 1979, Alaskan patriots, angered at the Federal government's arrogant use of the Antiquities Act, engaged in a series of events that had the potential to change world affairs. President Reagan's election and appointment of James Watt as Interior Secretary eventually defused the situation and the Alaskan Patriot movement, but not before the following story occurred. Names have been changed to protect still-living Patriots-and forthcoming Homeland Security legislation will likely...Chinook Chapter One- (Found July 5, 2008 ) ALASKAN LANDS PROTECTED Associated Press-Washington D.C.-President Carter today protected an additional 56 million acres of pristine Alaskan wilderness. Using the 1907 Antiquities Act, President Carter increased the size of the National Park and Monument systems by an area larger than the State of Idaho. December 2, 1978, Alaskan News Miner.http://homerkizer.org/Chapter%20One%20Chinook.pdf Chinook Chapter Eighteen- (Found July 5, 2008 ) He arrived in Alaska without a weapon. Each year, airport security worldwide makes traveling with weapons more difficult. But he has a contact who will sometime today receive a package shipped by overnight express from New York. That package will contain his Uzi, silenced and modified to function with subsonic loads; and a couple of pistols, a military Eagle and a little Mauser in 9x17, the Mauser also modified for squib loads. So he doesn't want to meet Mr. Calkins until after that package...http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2018.pdf Chinook Chapter Nineteen- (Found July 5, 2008 ) One helicopter after another lands within the compound, each delivering two or three manacled prisoners. Then, as if ashamed of what they have done, the stinging machines lift off, leaving guards and confusion flirting with the wind that ripples the untracked wilderness stretching as far south as can be seen.http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2019.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty- (Found July 5, 2008 ) When Peggy, rummy from driving all night, returned home a few minutes after nine, her worry was about being late for work. She never anticipated having her arms pinned against her front door, her legs spread apart, her body patted down, her hands cuffed, feet manacled, then being forced into a car and put on this plane. She never anticipated that her protests would get her electrical jolts from alligator clips attached to her, I can't even name the parts of me they touched. She never...http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2020.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-one- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The valley stretches over the horizon where it flows into an even larger valley, and that valley merges with another as streams swell into a river. In the third valley downstream, three Athabaskan families trap during the cold months. After the river ice goes out, they move even farther downstream where they have two fishwheels. They sell salmon eggs to Japanese buyers, and dry the salmon carcasses for their dogs. And they return to their cabins in that third valley before the caribou migrate...http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2021.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-two- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Anchorage lies to one side of Tower Three; dark mud flats and dirty floe ice lie to the west side. Mountains extend upwards on all sides, with Mt. Illiana across the Inlet steaming from near its summit. He notices the steam. Under the snow, the mountain brews rage. Galled by the continual drift of stumbling stones slipping westward toward tomorrow, the mountain's rage smelts gold and uranium, heating and melting, reheating and remelting the mingled lump received from Creation, each heating...http://homerkizer.org/chinook%2022.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-three- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Picked up like a purse with a link-chain strap, Peggy is carried from the plane, set on damp asphalt in the cold darkness, left there until her mind loses all sense of time, then picked up again. One-handed, the fellow in camo fatigues slings her forward, careful that she doesn't touch his pants, his strength sufficient to hold her short armed, his elbow tucked into the hollow above his right hip. He tosses her onto the floor of a helicopter as he might, again, a purse. And she lies there on...http://homerkizer.org/chinook23.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-four- (Found July 5, 2008 ) The agent in place, on her only ever assignment, let Les Jones crawl out of the hospital right under her nose, then proceeded in getting a marshal killed and two others wounded yesterday. Her assignment here, though, is indicative of these frostfaries' low national priority, a situation that changed last night when it was confirmed that Israel had sent a man to dicker for the raw ore being offered for a weapon. Now, the Calvary has been called in to clean up the mess-it seems like he goes from..http://homerkizer.org/chinook24.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-five- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Not wishing to farther press Ben about the murder of the agent, Caroline dials the inside number of the Federal fortress, uses her security PIN, and gets the watch commander. For the briefest of an instant, she thinks about turning Ben in. She knows what will happen to her if she does, but it isn't her fear of what will happen that stops her. She's sorry about the agent, but a nuclear bomb The Israeli lookalike has to be stopped. She has to stop him. Ben has to. And she is more certain now than.http://homerkizer.org/chinook25.pdf Chinook Chapter Twenty-six- (Found July 5, 2008 ) Maybe Jabe is on the Kenai, holed up somewhere no one knows to look. He couldn't have gotten past the roadblocks on the Sterling Highway. If he escaped from the Kenai Peninsula, he will have flown north-or south-or west-or even east. It seems as if everyone of the frostfaeries have wings. They fly around the state without filing flight plans, or having pilot licenses, or having insurance. They fly planes that haven't been annualled in years, if ever. They fly rebuilt planes, mismarked planes...http://homerkizer.org/chinook26.pdf |