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...pours into its economy through export transits, tourism and remittances from the 100,000 Mozambique workers who make up roughly 25% of South Af rica's mining force. South Africa has also signed a ten-year contract to buy power from Mozambique's $400 million Cabora Bassa Dam, which begins operations later this month...
Then, last year, the dam broke. Suffering from injuries and the lack of a strong quarterback, the Packers, considered potential Super Bowl contenders, faltered through a losing season...
...James W. McCord Jr., 50, whose letter to Judge John Sirica burst the Watergate dam, has told friends that sermons in suburban Washington's Fourth Presbyterian Church had a powerful impact on his decisions that winter. On the first Sunday of January 1973, McCord, a Methodist who had started attending the church only weeks before, heard the Rev. Richard Halverson, Washington's best-known evangelical preacher, talk about the power of Satan that tempted leaders to play God. The next week, when approached by White House Aide John Caulfield, McCord refused to plead guilty and remain silent...
...many weeks, the newspapers that had remained sympathetic to Rich ard Nixon-or at least open-minded about his guilt or innocence-were under growing pressure to change their positions. Last Wednesday morning the dam broke. In the aftermath of Nixon's latest disclosures about his involvement in the Watergate coverup, a number of major newspapers that had been on the fence called for Nixon's resignation or impeachment...
Need Help. The Havasupai have even more formidable champions. Senator Edward Kennedy urged his House colleagues to pass the amendment because the Havasupai "are not going to build a dam, or put up a factory, or launch a tourist extravaganza." Senator Barry Goldwater said the Sierra Club has become "a closed society, a self-centered, selfish group, who care for nothing but ideas which they themselves originate and which fit only their personal conceptions of the way of life everyone else should be compelled to live." Hubert Humphrey, another Senate supporter, said the amendment would not be environmentally disruptive because...