State gives away the store again. (Wrangel Island, Alaska)

National Review | November 29, 1985| | Copyright

THE REAGAN State Department has been quitely trying to give the Soviet Unioin a piece of American territory larger than the state of Delaware, under which there may be millions of barrels of oil. It is Wrangel Island, located north of Siberia in the Arctic Ocean, and it is the only piece of American territory ever successfully seized by a foreign power--although that seizure has not been recognized until now.

The U.S. lost Wrangel on August 20, 1924, when the Soviet gunboat Krasny Oktyabr (Red October) seized the island, captured 14 American fur trappers (two of ...

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