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...worst, then briefly exhaled when it looked as if the threat had passed. Several hours after the storm moved through on Monday, some streets were essentially dry. Then shortly after midnight, a section almost as long as a football field in a main levee near the 17th Street Canal ruptured, letting Lake Pontchartrain pour in. The city itself turned into a superbowl, roadways crumbled like soup crackers as the levees designed to protect them were now holding the water in. Engineers tried dropping 3,000-lb. sandbags, but the water just swallowed them. As the days passed, the Army Corps...
...levee breach left 80% of the city immediately submerged and 100,000 people stranded. Canal Street lived up to its name. As the temperature rose, the whole city was poached in a vile stew of melted landfill, chemicals, corpses, gasoline, snakes, canal rats; many could not escape their flooded homes without help. Among those who could, only a final act of desperation would drive them into the streets, where the caramel waters stank of sewage and glittered with the gaudy swirls of oil spills. A New Orleans TV station reported that a woman waded down to Charity Hospital, floating...
...that unless they were armed, they should get out of the city. At one point, rescuer Randy White says, "Someone yelled out to me, 'If you don't get us out by 12 o'clock, we're going to start shooting all the rescuers.'" One man was standing on Canal Boulevard with water up to his chest wearing a mink coat that he had liberated from a store. "This natural disaster is beginning to look like a Watts riot," said a worried congressional aide in Washington as he watched the chaos. "There's something really ugly going on here, something...
...chief deterrent for many of Harvard’s transportation plans—which also include the creation of a canal from the river into Allston—would be a high cost, which has yet to be determined...
...subversive acts in Egypt, in the so-called Lavon scandal. [A reference to Israeli attacks on Western targets in Egypt. The strikes were made to appear as Egyptian terrorism in order to sour Egyptian-Western relations during sensitive negotiations on the withdrawal of British troops from the Suez Canal.] In 1973 Israel shot down a Libyan Boeing 727, causing the deaths of more than 100 civilian passengers . . . Last February, Israel hijacked a Libyan plane carrying a Syrian political delegation. These are some of the acts of terrorism committed by Israel.[*] Did the U.S. place Israel on the list of countries...