Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly everything else, however, the countries differ widely, and a "bold new venture" that would rescue one would be just as likely to suffocate another. They differ, for instance, in "absorbtive capacity"; foreign capital can build a dam in the Indus River Basin or at Aswan, but if it tries to build a railroad where no one knows how to--or no one wants to--build railroads, a lot of money will go to waste in abortive projects and in the television sets that grace the living rooms of members of the local congresses. The question of allocation of resources...
...bitter disputes that came out of the violent partition of India and Pakistan was what to do about the Indus River basin, which sprawled across the borders with no regard to politics. The Indus, whose flow is twice that of the Nile, is Pakistan's lifeline; without it, all Western Pakistan would be a desert. Though only 8% of the basin's area stayed in India, it includes the headwaters of three of the six principal tributary streams. For one brief period in 1948, India, eager to divert the flow into her desert territories, cut off Pakistan...
...Indo-Pakistani water treaty largely engineered by World Bank President Eugene Black. Under the treaty, India will receive the full flow of her three rivers. Pakistan will keep the three others. So that the Pakistani areas downstream of India's rivers will not turn arid, an Indus Basin Development Fund will construct a massive system of connecting canals, bringing water for the northern rivers to fill the empty southern river beds. Six foreign countries (the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and two newcomers to the foreign aid game-West Germany and New Zealand) will supply $640 million of the fund...
...Beards & Basins. At the Cherche-Midi court in Paris, 25 defendants crowded the dock. Almost all were under 30, most of them wore the corduroy jackets, sandals, beards and basin hairdos familiar in the narrow streets of the Latin Quarter. They were members of the "Jeanson" organization, accused of much more than mere distaste for government policies and practices. They were charged with smuggling money out of France to buy arms and munitions for the F.L.N. columns fighting the French in Algeria. All but six of the 25 were French men and women-teachers, mathematicians, TV producers, actors...
...size; more than 10,000 U.S. communities are afflicted to some degree. Most U.S. smog is of the eye-irritating "Los Angeles type," composed primarily of nitrous oxides and petroleum products loosely known as hydrocarbons, much of it traceable directly to automobile exhausts. Every day in the Los Angeles basin, more than 12,500 tons of pollutants are discharged (80% by autos) into the air-and without the city's severe industrial controls, the daily dosage would be 3,300 tons higher. Its economic and psychological effects are staggering. Smog has cost the Los Angeles area an estimated...