Word: dammed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With the push of a button at the new Ataturk Dam last week, Turkey's President Turgut Ozal cut the flow of the Euphrates River to Syria and Iraq, his country's arid downstream neighbors, by 75%. The month-long diversion will enable Turkish engineers to fill a reservoir that will be used for irrigation and hydroelectric power...
Syria and Iraq expressed anger at the move, predicting that it would adversely affect their agriculture and power generation. Long-brewing tensions over the dam increased last summer when Ozal observed that his country might someday block the Euphrates to force an end to Syrian support of Kurdish separatists in Turkey. Later he backed away from the threat...
...score was 2-1 at the end of one, but once again, the dam burst in the second period. This time, the Crimson scored seven times to bury the Bruins. Young scored the first two goals before Harvey left the fray with a concussion, the result of a run-in with Weisbrod. Ciavaglia then greeted Harvey's replacement, Dan Quinn, with a quick pair of goals Eventually, Weisbrod's power-play goal with seven seconds left in the period gave the Crimson a 9-3 advantage...
TASK FORCE ATLANTIC. Made up of 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers from Fort Bragg, N.C., and Seventh Infantry troops from Fort Ord, Calif., backed by special units, it raced to secure vital facilities at the Caribbean end of the canal, near Colon. It took over Madden Dam, which stores water used to raise and lower ships in the canal's locks, and seized control of the electrical distribution center at Cerro Tigre. The task force encountered stiff resistance from a P.D.F. naval infantry unit on the northern coast. This force also freed 48 P.D.F. prisoners at Gamboa prison...