Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reservoir." The term reservoir is used only in connection with pure water, but in fact the water will be saline and polluted. Furthermore, Con Edison itself admits that it could not guarantee against seepage which would tremendously affect the surrounding watershed area. Finally, the 200 foot earthen fill dam was shown to be planned along a geological fault...
Racing against the day when the Aswan Dam will submerge a 250-mile section of the Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Operation Gwamba," the rescue of more than 10,000 South American animals from 870 square miles about to be flooded by a dam on the Suriname River. This show begins a new season for Twentieth Century; in color for the first time...
Instead, he offered to send a token force-a squadron of R.A.F. fighters and a battalion of the Royal Scots-to the copper belt, some 250 miles north of the dam. Kaunda accepted the air protection (Zambia has only ten military aircraft of its own), but rejected the offer of troops unless they were sent directly to the dam. Into the copper-belt center of Ndola at week's end swooped ten British Javelin jet fighters, accompanied by big-bellied Argosy and Beverley transports carrying the squadron's maintenance supplies. A brace of Britannia turboprop transports arrived...
...struggle to dam the dollar outflow, the Administration has cut tourists' take-home liquor, curbed bank loans, substituted scrip for soldiers' cash salaries in Viet Nam and even persuaded federal junketeers to stop at U.S.-run hotels abroad. Lately, it has not only leaned hard on investment by U.S. business in foreign plants and companies but has been warning that businessmen will be expected to do still more next year to help the U.S. achieve "equilibrium" in its balance of payments...