Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Parsons, Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs, is hoping for the big job in Tokyo. Ambassador Henry Byroade, who was exiled from Egypt, first to South Africa and then to Afghanistan, by John Foster Dulles (he was a casualty in the U.S. policy switch on Nasser's Aswan Dam project), is expected to do better under the new Administration. And State's top information job, now held by Assistant Secretary Andrew Berding, is in for fierce competition. Favorite candidate among State people is genial Roger Tubby, 50, who was a press officer there from 1945-49, later became...
...estimated $225 billion economy, less than half U.S. size, of which more than $40 billion goes for defense, Russia is already straining to meet heavy obligations to Red China, the European satellites and Cuba. The Reds are also committed to build Egypt's $1 billion Aswan High Dam, have considerable financial agreements with Ghana, Guinea, India, Iraq and Indonesia. While new U.S. overseas aid this year has totaled $3.7 billion, the Russians were able to send only an estimated $475 million in loans, grants and usable credit to non-Communist countries-far less than the $1.6 billion they...
Goodbye to a River, by John Graves. An uncommonly well-told account of the author's sentimental journey by canoe down the Brazos River of western Texas, a watercourse that was to be destroyed by a power dam project...
...dam had burst. In the slum suburbs of Belcourt and Clos Salembier, from the tar-paper shacks of Maison-Carrée, Moslems erupted in wild demonstrations. Rebel flags blossomed on dozens of minarets. Cars belonging to Europeans were smashed and burned, shops and cafes turned into a shambles. A luckless policeman was caught by the crowd and his throat cut. Nine other Europeans were beaten to death, burned alive or fatally stabbed with sharpened screwdrivers...
...able to rescue hundreds of rings, jeweled swords, wrist bands, fragile animal motifs of hammered gold. Experts guess that there may be scores more of such crypt treasures across the nation: only four months ago, a cache of 16th and 17th century crystal was found by workers excavating a dam...