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...Asian portion is no less ambitious, involving the rechanneling of Siberia's mighty Ob River and its major tributary, the Irtysh. The original idea was to carry the water south by building a canal some 1,500 miles long, perhaps by nuclear blasting. But that proposal drew so many objections in the West that Soviet planners are now talking of rerouting the water along old riverbeds revealed by satellite photographs...
...this week's summit, each leader, along with four aides, will stay in the Grand Trianon; Ronald Reagan will sleep in a suite once occupied by Louis Philippe, an eight-room apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the canal and gardens. Some 3,000 guards will patrol the palace this weekend, and at the request of jittery U.S. officials, six antiaircraft missiles will be placed around the park. Frogmen have inspected every pool and canal for bombs and killer rabbits; the schedule allows for a late-afternoon gondola ride, if weather permits...
...Ogallala published a list of 20 recommendations for action. Most of the suggestions, based on a $6 million federal study of the problem, involved stopgap efforts rather than cures. Except one. The committee wants further study of a proposal by the Army Corps of Engineers for huge canal systems that would import water from South Dakota, Missouri and Arkansas. The routes - all of which would be uphill - range in length from 376 miles to 1,135 miles. The cost- from $3.6 billion to $22.6 billion - currently places the canals in the realm of fantasy...
...achieved its limited objectives of opening Tiran and halting terrorist infiltration through Gaza. But the Eisenhower administration's hostility towards Israel's tendency to pursue policies independently and strong Soviet support allowed Nasser to deny Israel its two chief objectives-peace with Egypt and the use of the Suez Canal...
...return, Israel received a pledge of peace and use of the Suez Canal. To stick by his Camp David signature. Begin has been forced to evict and evacuate the ultra-religious settlers in the Sinai and give them substantial economic compensation. As he is pushed from the far right, so he is pressured by the opposition Labor party which opposes his stance on "Judea and Samaria," the occupied West Bank which now has at least one million Palestinians living under Israeli military and administrative rule. While coping with internal pressures-Israeli is, after all, the only democracy in the region...