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After nine phone calls, MacArthur located in the labyrinth of the Department of Energy (DOE) a harassed man with, he swore, 3,999 other dams to worry about. He informed MacArthur that he might have become eligible for a loan by conducting something called a feasibility study, if only the...
Unfortunately, there seems to be little chance that these small steps will lead to any sustained effort by the rich nations to help the poor. Says U.S. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal: "In view of our domestic problems, no substantial increase in assistance seems feasible at present." Many Western statesmen...
But as it grew, the semiautonomous TVA became increasingly a business, losing much of its original New Deal idealism. Switching from its initial reliance on dams, the TVA built large coal plants and the world's largest nuclear power station. To finance expansion, the TVA began to raise rates...
The son of an Orthodox Jewish immigrant umbrella maker, Freeman grew up in Chattanooga and still remembers when the city was ravaged by floods before TVA dams tamed the Tennessee River. Says he: "If you were a member of the generation that saw the light bulb replace a kerosene lantern...
Carter is particularly unpopular in the West. All four of the states that he visited last week-Colorado, California, Oregon and Washington-voted for Gerald Ford in 1976. Since then, Carter has outraged water-short Westerners by trying to eliminate 19 proposed dams, half of them in the West. Interior...