Word: dammed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tone of both speeches as yet another hint that the Soviets are keeping the door open in the talks on nuclear arms limitation. Last month Andropov had given that message to former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Averell Harriman, and last week Soviet television allowed Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to make a rare pitch for the U.S. view (see box). Said a veteran U.S. diplomat who has been holding talks in Moscow on nuclear nonproliferation: "Once we find common ground, it's remarkably easy to talk...
...viewers of the weekly Soviet TV show International Panorama, it was a rare spectacle. At the beginning of a program devoted to doctrinaire analysis of world affairs, the cool, youthful image of U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam suddenly appeared. In a taped transmission from a reception room at the State Department, Dam responded to Correspondent Alexander Druzhinin's questions about arms control. Dam assured his Soviet audience that the U.S. was sincere in hoping to reach an agreement in the talks currently under...
Just as unusual as Dam's uncensored six-minute presentation was the fact that the Soviets were then treated to an opposing view by another American. U.S. Rear Admiral (ret.) Gene La Rocque, a strong opponent of Administration policy, argued that the U.S. MX missile "is a very dangerous weapons system" and questioned the Administration's commitment to reaching an arms control agreement in Geneva. International Panorama Host Alexander Bovin left no doubt about the Kremlin's preferences. He promptly declared that "La Rocque has quite accurately defined the weak points in the American approach...
...Just after Memorial Day, when a dam of debris in Ward Canyon broke and sent water and mud pouring into Bountiful, ten miles north of Salt Lake City, 1,000 volunteers showed up to help. An additional 500 volunteers a day work in the Midvale gravel pit, where they perform the task of shoveling dirt into sandbags. On weekends the number of volunteers doubles: entire families show...
...Utah department of natural resources, the soil on mountains in the area is supersaturated because of an abnormally high winter snowpack's melting under suddenly warm spring weather. Torrential rains have further loosened the soil, which has been tumbling down into the canyons, creating an earth dam. As water builds up behind the dams, it is only a matter of time before the unstable materials start to give way and a mud slide is born...