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This arrangement has been strongly endorsed both by Botswana's voters, who gave Sir Seretse a landslide election victory in his bid for another five-year term last October, and by Western aid programs. Canada has financed a dam in the northeast to store scarce water, and the U.S. has loaned $16 million for the building of a 200-mile all-weather road to Botswana's northern border. Britain, Sweden, Norway and the United Nations have committed $31 million in grants and loans, mostly for manpower training and rural development...
...California environmentalist groups lost a bitter fight to stop construction of a dam on the Stanislaus River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The 62-story-high structure was designed to prevent yearly flooding of the lower Stanislaus. Backers of the project cite other benefits like some 2.4 million acre-feet of irrigation water and enough nonpolluting hydroelectric power to supply a city of 200,000 people. The problem is that the dam will also destroy some nine miles of spectacular white water. An organization called Friends of the River, which was formed to fight the dam, persuasively argued that flood...
...kingly privilege. Not only do aides, including the Premier, kiss his hand, but peasants also kiss his feet as a mark of respect. When the Shah stands, everyone in his presence also stands until he sits again. Iranian public works, from the 609-ft.-tall Mohammed Reza Pahlavi dam, Iran's highest, to the Aryamehr steel complex, are named in honor of the Shah or the Shahbanou. "The outside world thinks that we want that sort of thing," said Empress Farah in an interview last week with TIME (see box, page...
...feasible," says Pirelli Engineer Attilio Angioletti. Lab tests have shown that the tirelike rubber fabric has a tensile strength of 2.5 tons per sq. in.-enough to withstand the battering of any sea. To test the system further, Pirelli and Furlanis are now building a 220-ft.-long "baby" dam at the mouth of another lagoon. If it works as well as expected, the Italian government will consider funding dighe di gomma for Venice...
...billion to revive Western Europe's war-shattered economy in a successful effort that brilliantly proved his argument that "prosperity is the best antidote to Communism." As chief of the United Nations Development Program, from 1959 to 1972, he spent his "most fascinating" years funding projects ranging from dam surveys to locust extermination in a hundred countries...