Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little salt war between the U.S. and Mexico was finally over. On both sides of the border, there were cheers for the long-awaited settlement of a minor but highly abrasive issue: U.S. pollution of the Colorado River...
...Colorado is a life-giving stream for much of the arid U.S. Southwest and for Mexico's Mexicali Valley. Under a 1944 treaty, the U.S. promised to share the river for irrigation. Mexico built a dam one mile below the border, spider-webbed the once desolate Mexicali Valley with irrigation canals. Then in 1961, under the Wellton-Mohawk reclamation project in Arizona's Yuma Desert, U.S. cotton growers began draining salty irrigation water from their soil-and flushed the residue back into the river, whose salt content rose from a tolerable 800 parts...
...vulnerable under international law, Presidents Kennedy and Johnson pressed hard for a solution. Under the new agreement-not a formal treaty -the U.S. will spend $5,000,000 to build a 13-mile drainage canal that will divert the salty water from the Wellton-Mohawk project into the Colorado River at a point safely below the Mexican Dam. If pollution remains dangerously high at the end of five years, the U.S. and Mexico will get together to figure out what else...
...fierce pride of rural residents who want their own school and fear the "corrupting" influence-and higher taxes-of the town school districts. The one-room school is most numerous in such Midwest states as Nebraska, Wisconsin and the Dakotas, most hardy in the mountain regions of Montana, Colorado and Nevada...
...Burst of Action. In Rhode Island last week, state leaders of every major church group petitioned the legislature to pass a fair-housing bill this year. An amendment strengthening Colorado's housing act was approved by the state legislature last week, thanks largely to strong clerical pressure. This summer, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is vastly expanding a tutorial program in Harlem, run by professional educators, to help stem the school dropout rate; the schools will be open to children of all faiths, will operate in 30 centers...