Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conferred at length with ten African chiefs of state, talked briefly with nearly 200 Cabinet ministers, shaken hands with some 400 diplomats. He had toured dozens of dam sites, factories and historical monuments, sat straight-faced through scores of folk-dance performances, and collected enough tribal masks and carved ivory gewgaws to open his own African museum. But what had he achieved...
...nine years, Robinson and Pacific Northwest, a consortium of four private power firms, have been seeking approval to build a $257 million, 670-ft.-high dam at Mountain Sheep in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. Competing with Pacific Northwest was the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which offered to build a comparable dam at Mountain Sheep or an even bigger one (800 ft. high and costing $369 million) farther north at Nez Perce. And bucking both was Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, who wanted the Federal Government...
First, the commission ruled out Nez Perce because it would have killed more migrating Chinook salmon and steelhead fish than the High Mountain Sheep Dam. Some 200,000 fishermen and conservationists in the Northwest are already alarmed at the toll that such great dams in the Columbia River Basin as Bonneville and Grand Coulee are exacting on the $12 million-a-year salmon business. Second, the five Kennedy-appointed commissioners unanimously knocked down the Government's dam-building bid on the grounds that Pacific Northwest could do everything the Government proposed to do, and faster. And finally...
Ultimately, the High Mountain Sheep Dam will minimize flooding along the Snake and will generate 2,000,000 kw. in a booming region whose power needs are growing by 15% a year. Washington public power spokesmen, plainly miffed, claimed that their huge Nez Perce project would generate 3,200,000 kw., and would tame the flood-prone Salmon River as well as the Snake...
...demanded a pay hike similar to that which the Tanganyikan troops had asked for. When Prime Minister Apollo Milton Obote sent his Internal Affairs Minister to negotiate, they arrested him as well. But Obote had learned from Nyerere's experience. He sent police to secure the Owen Falls dam and thus cut the main highway from Jinja to Kampala. Then, swallowing his pride, the man who had often ranted against "colonialists" and "imperialists" called for British aid. Within the hour, 450 troops from the Staffordshire Regiment and the Scots Guards were winging in from Kenya. As they took positions...