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During the weekend, 5 in. of rain had fallen on Toccoa ("beautiful place" in the Cherokee language). The swollen, 50-acre-wide lake at the head of the valley burst the earthen dam, which had been built in 1901 and enlarged in 1937. Said Ron Farnsworth, whose trailer was on high ground and was spared: "I believe God took home the people he wanted to take home. They were all born-again believers. This is a victory for them." College President Kenn Opperman called the disaster "an obstacle we are going to convert into a steppingstone. This is a privilege...
...meeting on Western water problems in Denver, Carter was gently chided for his drive to curtail large dam projects by Democratic Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, who claimed that in just one year the value of Colorado crops fed by stored water exceeds the cost of the state's 73 water-reclamation projects. As in Detroit, Carter showed surprising knowledge of regional conditions, noting that, unlike Georgia, Colorado does not help conserve water by metering its use in homes. But, also as in Detroit, while Carter was cordially received, he left his audience vaguely dissatisfied by his failure to propose...
...alone, surrounded by a hostile population not only in Panama but in the rest of Latin America, the U.S. would need an estimated 100,000 troops to put down a determined guerrilla effort. And even that sizable a force could not seal off the waterway's lock mechanisms, dams and power plants from some kind of sabotage. A band of skilled terrorists, for example, could approach the Gatun Dam through the dense jungle with relative ease. Properly placed explosives could blow up the dam, drain the water that is required to operate the locks and put the whole canal...
...mine owners that sounds like an appeal to recognize, and even give their blessing to, a state of anarchy. Under Miller's leadership, they point out, man-days lost because of the unauthorized strikes have more than quadrupled; the total so far this year is 2.3 million. Most dam aging were a series of brushfire walkouts that spread from West Virginia to Kentucky and Ohio this past summer, idling many mines for eight weeks. Though Miller personally appealed to the men to go back, his pleas were ignored. Mine owners-whose negotiating team is headed by Joseph Brennan...
...home booters fought valiantly through the opening period, however, playing the visitors fairly evenly for the opening half hour. Then the dam broke...