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...Love Canal...
Councilor Thomas A. Danehy, a North Cambridge resident, said the dump site "could be a potential Love Canal," and warned that chemicals could be leaking into the city's water system...
...private wells would be shut down, and a dike could then be built around the city, with a runoff canal leading directly to the sea. Finally, the plan calls for Bangkok's sagging water table to be refilled, a move that should stop the sinking process. City planners are pessimistic, however, because the final price tag could run to several times Bangkok's annual budget of $207 million...
...market in wheelbarrows, on tractors, even lashed to the backs of bicycles, then reappear in the markets as huge slabs of pink-and-white pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese and ducks; eels from the canal ditches; fish from their ponds; fruit; fresh vegetables; herbs, spices, ginger root; delicacies. Canaries are for sale again, along with other caged birds, and cricket boxes. Shoemakers ply their trade; itinerant dentists, with their foot-paddle drills, have reappeared...
...Each year joint maneuvers are held in Panama to practice defending the canal. Between 7,000 and 10,000 American troops participate, many of them from the 9,000-man force based there...