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...critical debate is now raging over the water that irrigates 9 million acres of the state's farm land. Agriculture soaks up 85% of California's water supply. But much of the water comes down the Colorado River through Arizona and Colorado, and farmers there are demanding a bigger share. Intense lobbying in Congress by white-water rafters and others has delayed for more than a year full use of the $341 million New Melones Dam near Modesto; other environmentalists are stalling plans for a 43-mile canal that would supply more water for the arid south...
...from Nebraska sifted through the White House doors during the Dust Bowl years, F.D.R. became an avid student of the causes of the drought and possible defenses against the blowing topsoil. Lyndon Johnson used to tell how he won Roosevelt's approval for a dam on the lower Colorado River by enticing the President with pictures of various other dams, a subject dear to Roosevelt's heart...
According to popular myth, however, you must go to California or Colorado to find a community thoroughly steeped in "alternative consciousness." Not true. Right here in Cambridge and Boston there are enough swamis for a softball team. Harvey Cox, Gallagher Professor of Divinity, said in his book Turning East that Cambridge is so full of holy men it should be rechristened the "Benares-on-the-Charles." Just walking through the Square you can hear an impassioned plea for a peculiar form of world peace from a member of the Unification Church, sample being "processed" by Scientology aficionados, and glance...
...prison life that the reader is scarcely surprised to learn that in the District of Columbia jail a young white antiwar protester of the 1960s was raped dozens of times by blacks. In a 75-page opinion, Federal Judge John L. Kane Jr. last December held that conditions in Colorado's Old Max prison were so primitive and confining that they were bound to damage the minds of the inmates...
...Olympic Committee to send a team would harm American interests by seeming to condone the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan. Said Carter: "If legal actions are necessary to enforce the decision not to send a team to Moscow, I will take them." No need. Meeting in Colorado Springs, Colo., the U.S.O.C. voted, by more than 2 to 1, to honor the President's request and not send anyone to the Summer Games...