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...Army Corps of Engineers had its way, the Red River Gorge would now be earmarked for submersion. But last week, yielding to unusual pressures, the corps disclosed that it was abandoning plans to build a dam there. To control seasonal floods and store water for fast-growing Lexington, 50 miles to the west, a dam will be built 5.3 miles downstream from the original site, thereby saving the most spectacular two-thirds of the gorge from flooding...
Great Obsessions. The cement pourers have been thwarted on dam projects before, but rarely-if ever-on such ecological and esthetic grounds. What rescued the Red River Gorge was frenzied activity by the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society, an outpouring of statements by Kentucky biologists, and most important, intervention by some high-level Republicans, including Governor Louie Nunn, Senator John Sherman Cooper and President Richard Nixon...
...have built a tent city there, and government technicians are drilling deep wells in search of water. A few miles up the road, schoolboys play soccer in the dried-out bed of the Aconcagua, normally a mighty river. Even farther to the north, water from the near-dry Recoleta Dam is rationed-four days running, ten days shut...
Harvard started strong in the second half, also. The revitalized Crimson narrowed the gap to only seven points after five minutes. But then with the score 63-53, the dam collapsed and B.C. outscored its opponents, 19-2, to go out in front...
...some comfort in the fact that Israel chose to avoid a strike at "the strong Arab front line," as Beirut Columnist Ghassan Kanafani put it. But such dubious optimism belied the main point of the raid: Israeli forces had staged a daring attack within 140 miles of the Aswan Dam, on which Egyptians are banking so heavily that they have nicknamed it simply "our future." Now 96% complete, the dam could probably not be destroyed by anything short of an atomic warhead, but damage to its sluice gates and other vulnerable parts could impede Egyptian agriculture and industry. That possibility...