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...State of the Union message is required by the Constitution. The founders intended that it serve as a channel of information from the Executive Branch to the Legislative Branch. For a century, Presidents wrote the message and had it delivered by hand to Congress. Today the actual State of the Union report is not one event but a whole series of special messages that tumble out of the White House for weeks. The address itself is only the preface...
...Jonglei project, named after the nearly inaccessible province it crosses, is being built to carry needed water to Sudan's arid north and to Egypt. The channel could irrigate some 600,000 acres of land by diverting 30% of the flow of the White Nile River, as much as 5.2 billion gal. of water a day, around the Sudd, a vast swampland in southern Sudan...
...canal skirting the Sudd was first envisioned by British colonial administrators at the turn of the century. The current $260 million project is being built by a French consortium, the Compagnie de Constructions Internationales (CCI). To dig the 15-ft.-deep, 170-ft.-wide channel, nearly half of which is now excavated, CCI is using 20 bulldozers, five road graders, three cranes and five shovels. The star performer is clearly "Sarah," a West German-built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved...
Another worry is that the channel will upset the migration patterns of wildlife, particularly antelopes. To minimize the canal's impact, 160 miles of the waterway will have gradually sloping embankments to permit animals to swim across...
...Only the Channel 38 programmers suffered more than the Harvard hockey team last night Expecting a vintage edition of the Harvard-Boston College rivalry for their rare college hockey broadcast, they instead picked a farce in which the outcome was obvious after just 10 minutes, an eventual 10.4 B.C. rout at M. Hugh Forum...