Word: dam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...streak of cynical wisdom." Torrijos liked to announce, "I don't want to enter into history. I want to enter into the Ca nal Zone." If diplomacy failed to establish Panamanian sovereignty over the U.S. -built canal, there was always sabo tage: blow a hole in the Gatun Dam, and it would take three years for rain to refill it. Meanwhile, he would mount a guerrilla war in the mountains...
...series of giant tableaux of moving humanity, depicting China's achievements under Deng, interspersed with battalions of dancers and students, all waving pompoms that transformed Tiananmen Square into shifting patterns of bright color. One huge float, representing the Yangtze River hydraulic project, had water gushing over a model dam; in another, a 14-ft. robot bunked, waved a bouquet of flowers and blurted out, "Long live the motherland...
...waterfall and drowned. Some environmentalists called the deaths "a major catastrophe." The question remained: Why had the rivers risen to deadly levels? Eskimo leaders and others blamed Hydro-Quebec, the province's government-owned utility. They charged that it had allowed too much water to spill over the dam that controls the flow of the two rivers. The Eskimos, or Innuit, as they are called in Canada, use the meat of the free-roaming caribou for food, the pelts for clothing and bedding, and the bones for utensils...
Hydro-Quebec said the river conditions resulted from the unusually heavy September rains in the region, and that the volume of river flow had been reduced by the construction of its dam. "Our position," said Hydro-Quebec Spokesman Jean-Guy Ouimet, "is that we are spilling less water than nature would...
Duarte also deserves good grades for his handling of the military. He has taken his role as commander in chief seriously, visiting nearly all of the country's 18 major barracks and personally ordering the battalion attack that retook the Cerrón Grande dam after it was overrun by guerrillas last June. On the other hand, he has dealt gingerly with a high command accustomed to calling the shots on and off the battlefield. The President retained General Eugenio Vides Casanova, 46, a career officer, as Defense Minister, but surrounded him with astute colonels led by Colonel Adolfo...