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...dozen federal buildings in Washington, D.C., and broken pipes caused perhaps $200,000 in damage to the Ohio Supreme Court chambers. More than 700 water mains broke in Fort Worth, causing the system to hemorrhage water twice as fast as the city uses it. In New Orleans, upscale new Canal Place Mall was awash because of broken pipes, while city streets were flooded by rain. The Crown Plumbing Co. in Houston hired 150 workers, doubling its staff, to cope with 3,000 emergency calls a day during the four-day freeze...
...stopped receiving two-by-fours in the mail from homebuilders protesting his policies. In a congressional hearing, Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania told Volcker that "the only things I can think of that you haven't been blamed for are herpes and giving up the Panama Canal." But the Senator added, "We're lucky to have you as chairman...
...northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, where they had been besieged by Syrian-backed P.L.O. rebels and shelled by Israeli naval guns. The ever flexible Arafat quickly looked for new support-and appeared to find it in Cairo. As he arrived by helicopter from Ismailia on the Suez Canal, the P.L.O. chairman received a warm embrace from Mubarak. Later, after a conversation that lasted almost two hours, Mubarak hailed his guest as a "moderate leader of the Palestinian people." Arafat, for his part, expressed the hope that one day he and Mubarak would be able to pray together...
...United States emerged from the Civil War as a major industrial power, the significance of Central America, both as a source and a conduit for raw materials became apparent to policy makers in Washington. The U.S. acted ruthlessly and often arbitrarily in guarding the zones for the future Panama Canal, and sanctioned the rapacious activities of American entrepreneurs who soon took control of the only sources of wealth in the impoverished countries, the banana and coffee trades...
...Hope, Pa. It was 7:15 p.m., and they had not been drinking. Moments later, in a heavy downpour, Fischbein apparently mistook a poorly marked towpath for the restaurant parking-lot exit. His rented station wagon tumbled some 15 feet into the water-and mud-filled Delaware Canal, coming to rest upside down. When the car was discovered four hours later, Fischbein was still strapped behind the wheel, and Savitch, along with her pet Siberian husky, lay in the back seat, drowned...