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...heart of the scheme is a 43-mile-long canal that will carry 4.1 million acre-feet* of water per year from the Sacramento River and divert it around the Delta-a huge, fertile area of meandering waterways near San Francisco that is irrigated by the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. This water will be pumped through nearly 700 miles of concrete aqueducts to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California. The diversion, say engineers, will save much of the river water that now flows through the Delta into San Francisco Bay and is lost to the ocean. All together...
Israel will certainly not get all 125 planes. In fact, no specific number of jets will be mentioned in Rogers' statement. Rather, the U.S. will indicate readiness to provide a continuing supply to replace planes shot down over the Suez Canal area, where Israelis and Egyptians have been fighting bitter battles for 15 months. No planes will be replaced if they are shot down deep over Egypt. At the same time that Washington announces these limited jet sales, the U.S. will press both Israel and the Arab states to move toward compromises that might lead...
...ninth grade and drove a dynamite truck to earn his way through the University of Colorado, from which he holds degrees in both finance and law. He grew interested in economics, he says, "by brooding about the absurdity of the Depression." While stationed in the Canal Zone as a Navy intelligence officer during World War II, he wrote a 600-page manuscript pro pounding his views. It lay in a closet for 15 years, until Philosopher Mortimer Adler, intrigued by a conversation with Kelso, asked to read it. Adler was so fascinated that he collaborated with Kelso on The Capitalist...
...worrisome to Israeli troopers as the sudden single shell that can catch a man in the open, on his way to the kitchen or the latrine. Also worrisome are the "monkeys," as the moles refer to the camouflaged Egyptian snipers who perch in 60-ft. eucalyptus trees across the canal. At one fort, a sniper plinked away whenever an Israeli headed for a shower. The commander knew that artillery would be of little use; 105-mm. howitzers had been tried before, but only made the trees sway. Besides, the shells cost $85 apiece. One morning, the commander rose before dawn...
...month. The civilians live mainly in Cairo's Zamalek district in a community complete with its own school, social club and outdoor movie. Another 3,000 to 4,000 military advisers are assigned to the armed forces at every level of command from artillery crews at the Suez Canal to naval vessels in the Red Sea. "Today the Soviets are in on every decision." an observer commented recently. President Nasser himself boasted in Khartoum last month that "Soviets are serving with our units everywhere." At least a dozen Russian advisers have died in Israeli attacks. The major new elements...