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DIED. Sir Barnes Neville Wallis, 92, British wizard of aircraft design who invented the "bouncing bombs" used to destroy German dams along the Ruhr, a World War II exploit celebrated in a book and the film The Dam Busters; in Leatherhead, England. Sir Barnes' career began with his World War I work on a British counterpart to the German zeppelin, included his development of the first swing-wing jet aircraft and hollow aerofoil design, and ended in 1971 with his efforts to improve upon the supersonic Concorde, a machine he considered rather primitive...
...morning of his death, Park had traveled to Tangjin, 100 miles south of Seoul, to inaugurate a three-mile-wide irrigation dam. In a sense, it was a fitting site for his last public appearance. After 18 years as a virtual dictator, Park had left his country a legacy of political repression but also of extraordinary development (see box). After the ceremony, Park and his entourage-including his ever-present five-man plainclothes guard-returned to Seoul; he spent the rest of the afternoon in his office in the Blue House, South Korea's presidential mansion. At around...
...Species Act because of "irresolvable conflict," and Republican Howard H. Baker of Tennessee moved to apply this gambit to the snail darter. When that failed, Baker resolutely pushed again, and Tellico was tacked onto a $10.8 billion energy and water appropriations bill. President Carter, on record as opposing the dam, faced a bitter choice. The bill reportedly contained no other pork barrels that he had fought, and it kept alive his Water Resources Council, an independent body that judges future projects. Moreover, the Endangered Species Act was due for congressional review, and a Tellico veto might leave it endangered. Carter...
Ironically, the snail darter may not be doomed after all. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which helped transplant much of the snail darter population to the nearby Hiwassee River, says that while their future is not yet assured, the fish are doing well so far. But the dam itself may not have a happy ending. Though Mayor Charles Hall of Tellico Plains (pop. 1,000) predicts the project will create 10,000 jobs over the next two decades, a new report by the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Department of the Interior concludes that the river...
...study also finds that the dam's projected output of 23 megawatts of electricity will be offset by operational costs and rack up an annual $750,000 deficit. And the TVA, which lobbied vehemently for the dam throughout the 1960s and '70s, now admits that the project will not even provide the power for which it was built. But as bulldozers returned to the dam site for a last month of construction before the reservoir is filled, practicality seemed to have lost a last round to politics...