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Disaster Areas. Last week the Salt Lake City River Forecast Center reported that the water-supply outlook for Nevada, Arizona, Utah, eastern Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming is "gloomy to grim." In the Columbia River Basin of the Pacific Northwest the outlook is "bleak and becoming bleaker." In parched California the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration noted that the drought, "nearly two years old, is expected to reduce river levels this summer to the lowest ever recorded." Further, in the Great Plains area of eastern Montana, eastern Wyoming, the Dakotas and Nebraska, the water supply...
Three months is a mere 6% of a presidential term-barely time enough, it might seem, for a Washington outsider to learn that the Tidal Basin is not a birdbath in the Rose Garden. But as Jimmy Carter faces Congress and the country with his energy message on the 91st day of his term, he almost inevitably invites at least an interim assessment. The usual time frame, of course, is 100 days-but what's ten days more or less in the case of a President who is setting Jimmy Carter's kind of pace...
Open Enthusiasm. The Kantan-gese invaders are drawn mainly from the Lunda tribe, traditionally among Central Africa's fiercest warriors. Shaba villagers have received them with open enthusiasm. Government troops, who speak Lingala-the language of the Congo River basin-rather than the local variant of Swahili, are, by contrast, feared and shunned...
Schwenk says he would like to spend several months traveling through the Amazon River Basin region before returning for medical school next fall...
...alert people watchers might even have caught sight of Ted Sorensen-lean, cerebral, ascetic-moving mysteriously through the Potomac power basin toward his new headquarters at the Central Intelligence Agency. The former Kennedy intellectual left Washington in 1964-lean, cerebral, ascetic...