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Travel Trailers U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens is as popular as ever at home in Alaska amid criticism in the lower 48 states that he used his political clout to enrich himself and his family. Bolstered by his home-state support, Alaska's official ``Man of the Century'' has rejected calls for his resignation from good-government activists and newspaper editorial writers.

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Travel Agency ``His response to that question was, 'If they think I'm going to resign my position as a member of the Appropriations Committee because of a newspaper story, they're crazy,''' his press secretary, Courtney Schikora, told Reuters.

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Last Minute Travel A senator since 1968, making him the senior Republican, the 80-year-old Stevens has reaped millions of dollars in recent years for himself and associates through federal contracts and legislation that he controlled as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Los Angeles Times said this month.

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Aloha Airlines The Times cited a $50,000 investment Stevens made in real estate partnerships with a developer who does business with the Defense Department that grew in value in six years to between $750,000 and $1.5 million.

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Travel Agent Watchdog groups including the Washington-based Citizens Against Government Waste have called for Stevens to resign his post as appropriations chairman.

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Travel Agents ``Apparently, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate thinks he can get away with anything in the pursuit of a plush retirement,'' said CAGW president Tom Schatz.

Discount Airfares But in Alaska, his constituents are brushing off the accusations. Here, Stevens is credited with steering torrents of federal money to his home state, which runs its government with almost no taxes on local residents.

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Travel State Gov Four years ago, a committee named Stevens ``Alaskan of the Century,'' and the Anchorage international airport bears his name. He is re-elected with overwhelming margins and with endorsements from Democrats as well as Republicans.

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Ata Airlines ``No state could ask for better service, compassion, fortitude and stewardship than what you have provided Alaskans for 35 years as our United States senator,'' said an open letter to Stevens from several labor unions that was published in Monday's Anchorage Daily News.

Travel Agencies Federal spending statistics reveal just how much Stevens has left his mark on the state.

Travel Guide The $7.6 billion in federal funds spent in Alaska in 2002 was nearly twice the national per-capita average and supported one in three Alaska jobs, according to the University of Alaska Anchorage's Institute of Social and Economic Research.

Time Travel Although federal spending here has always topped the national average, thanks to the state's vast federal lands, oil riches and military presence, it accelerated sharply when Stevens took over the chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee in 1997.

Travel Lodge Still, not everything Stevens does wins Alaskans' approval, and he often clashes with environmentalists who want to preserve Alaska's wilderness from logging and oil and gas drilling.

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China Airlines ``I think he's going to find it much more difficult to be as dictatorial as he's enjoyed being,'' said Buck Lindekugel of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, which has opposed Stevens-authored development provisions attached to budget bills.

Travel Com Reuters - 12/31/2003

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