The Nation - News from Jan. 23, 1989

Frigid temperatures have stopped people cold across Alaska, where a dozen towns were locked up in the minus 50s and minus 60s, and the temperature hit 70 below zero at a truck stop in Coldfoot, on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline supply road. Even high temperatures were well below zero in most of Alaska, and temperatures were so low that much of the state has gone into hibernation. Planes that carry mail, groceries and people to numerous outlying villages have been grounded by extreme cold and, in some places, by ice fog--dense fog formed by ice crystals.