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...years that he has represented Arizona on Capitol Hill, Carl Hayden, 90, has been nothing if not patient. For the past two decades, Hayden has been polishing legislation to authorize a Central Arizona Project, a vast network of dams and waterways to irrigate his arid state. In deference to his seniority and his power as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, the Senate has passed his Arizona bills three times-most recently last August when, despite their economizing mood, his colleagues approved a $1.2 billion appropriation for the project, along with five other Colorado River plans...
...ever since the Moslem Hausa in Nigeria's vast, arid Northern Region slaughtered 30,000 Ibos last fall, the two tribes have been blood enemies. The Ibos are not likely to let bygones be bygones. "They are stubborn," says Amiel Fagbulu, soon to be Minister of Education in Nigeria's Western Region. "They know what they want and they fight for their rights." Colonel Ojukwu, the Biafran head-of-state, has reportedly armed 100,000 irregulars for long-term guerilla warfare...
...Foundation funds, Hodges and other scientists from the University of Arizona and from Mexico's University of Sonora have designed and built an integrated, diesel-electric-based system that supplies electrical power, makes sea water drinkable, and contributes to lush vegetable growth near the small (pop. 5,000), arid fishing town of Puerto Penasco. Heart of the system is a 60-kw. Caterpillar diesel generator. But unlike other diesel-powered systems, in which about two-thirds of the fuel energy is wasted as heat, the Mexican installation feeds its hot exhaust gases and heated coolant water into a heat...
...been called by a man named Clay Bertrand the day after the assassination and asked to defend Lee Harvey Oswald; previously, he had told the FBI that he had made the whole story up. Ever since Garrison's inquiry started, the oddball lawyer has bounced in arid out with such a mixture of contradictions and dislocated hip talk that few knew or cared what he was trying to say. Garrison kept track, though. When the D.A. charged Clay Shaw with being Clay Bertrand and part of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy, Andrews at first told a grand jury that...
Dating the Moon. Walker's methods have already produced important discoveries. By analyzing fission tracks, Russian scientists recently identified the 104th chemical element, named Khurchatorium, arid U.S. research scientists spotted the phenomenon of triple fission-the splitting of a nucleus into three roughly equal parts. General Electric scientists have irradiated thin strips of plastic, etched the fission tracks with acid, and produced a material of great potential medical significance-a sensitive sieve that duplicates the filtering capacity of human membranes...