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...first time, Queen Elizabeth referred in public to the Falklands fighting as she opened the Kielder Dam in Northumberland. Her voice filled with emotion as she said, "Our thoughts today are with those who are in the South Atlantic and our prayers are for their success and a safe return to their homes and loved ones. But ordinary life must go on." In Gloucestershire, Prince Charles was asked about Prince Andrew, second in line to the throne and a Sea King pilot aboard the Invincible. Prince Charles replied: "He's all right?just flying very busily. I don't think...
...relatively cool nights of the desert, water in the air condenses and dissolves the salts lying near the surface of the statue. When the salts crystallize again, they crack pores within the stone. In recent years, scientists agree, the salt damage has been accelerated by the Aswan High Dam, more than 400 miles upriver. The new dam has raised the water table throughout the Nile Valley. Another villain has been the high-salt mortar used to restore the flaking monument. "Walking on top of the Sphinx in the morning," says Gauri, "you can hear the stones popping like potato chips...
...trees and topsoil are gone, water flows straight down the hillside, taking a good portion of the mountain with it. Silt has filled in many-of the area's streams, and the water table is deteriorating as previously reliable wells run dry. Martiki has built a large silt dam to capture the dirt in water running off the mining site, but even company engineers admit they can't trap...
...official reaction to that bizarre incident was symptomatic of the increasingly pro-Moscow tilt of the Islamic revolutionary government. Last week Iran and the Soviet Union concluded an agreement for "accelerated" economic and political cooperation. Under the new arrangement, the Soviets will finish constructing a hydroelectric dam and two power plants in Iran that they had begun building under the Shah. Iranian Energy Minister Hassan Ghafurifard declared in Moscow that the Soviet Union is a "friendly country," a telling contrast to the epithet "aggressor superpower of the East" that Iran had until recently reserved for the U.S.S.R...
...small step toward renewing ties with Moscow, which were all but severed last fall when Sadat expelled the Soviet ambassador, six diplomats and 1,000 technicians on charges of fomenting religious strife. Mubarak last week invited 66 Soviet technicians to return to fulfill their contracts on the Aswan High Dam and other projects, and added that an exchange of ambassadors with the U.S.S.R. was probably "inevitable...