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...four summers, Kendall and an international team of volunteers, meagerly financed by a grab bag of charitable sources, have been laboring like Inca road gangs, repairing broken stonework, rebuilding terrace walls and clearing canal channels choked with debris. Aside from applying a little cement and plastic sheeting to canal beds, they have stuck to traditional Inca stoneworking techniques. So far they have managed to reirrigate only 30 acres. But even this small step forward-or backward-has begun to change some of the lives of the handful of farmers on the slopes around Patallacta. One peasant has requested and secured...
Partan and others, while remaining optimistic about their chances in court this fall, nevertheless are preparing themselves for a new role as watchdogs. They remain convinced that MATEP will violate the pollution standards it has agreed to live by. "We can't wait for another Love Canal. Those people waited 20 years. I don't want to wait for that--I'll watch my people's health now," Ploss says, adding that she plans to closely monitor the health of her family and sue Harvard for any deterioration. "I don't want the money. I want my kids' health...
Frustration at what he considered lack of support for his effort to "finish the war" decisively before a cease-fire and a U.S.-sponsored disengagement agreement forced Israel to retreat back across the Suez Canal fueled his interest in politics even more. He was elected to the Knesset in December 1973 and in 1977 joined Begin's first government as Agriculture Minister. There he established a reputation less for his initiatives in farming methods than for his relentless encouragement of Israeli civilian settlement in occupied territories (when he took over the portfolio, there were 70 such settlements with...
...construction of a $64 million hydroelectric project, housing, and a $2.3 million alcohol distillery. The tiny island state of St. Lucia (pop. 120,000) has opened a $400,000 asphalt plant, courtesy of Caracas. In Panama, officials are planning to erect a $100 million bridge to span the canal-with Venezuelan backing. An estimated $100 million in Venezuelan money has flowed into embattled El Salvador to prop up the civilian-military government headed by Christian Democratic President José Napoleón Duarte, who spent seven years of exile in Venezuela. Even the right-wing regime of Guatemalan President Fernando...
...future is move fast when there is any complaint of an alleged violation. If they allow bureaucratic delays, we are in for trouble. People here are watching the canal very carefully...