Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard volunteers are received graciously by the tribe, but the Havasupai are reluctant to confide their fears about what is happening to their dwindling poulation, to their tenuous economy, and to the precious Canyon that is threatened by a dam upstream...
Only in the desert and within the walls of their plateau, property of the tribe for centuries, do the Havasupai feel comfortable. Yet the world beyond Highway 66 is now beginning to shatter that security. The Grand Canyon Dam is rising up river, meaning water and power for California. The Havasupai lands won't be flooded, but their rapids will disappear and the familiar will be rendered strange...
...tribe's particular schizophrenia. Women befriend them, confide a husband's concern about his brother who is picking oranges in California. A member of the Tribal Council confesses his complete inability to present the Havasupai's case to a government determined to go ahead with plans for the dam...
...commander in chief of this invasion force. Could you give us a date by which you could end the Smith regime? How would you get British forces into Rhodesia in sizable numbers without a buildup of several months-a buildup that would be obvious and might result in Kariba Dam's being blown up? These are some of the questions, my friend. How would you answer them?" He didn...
...beginning of the first round dam Harvard's confidence. Three of the four bouts were 5-4 wins for Colum Crimson senior Takashi Iwasawa pulled out a 5-4 foil victory, but the swept the round's last four bouts...