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...cost Lapindo far more to dig itself out of this particular corporate hole, however. On Nov. 22 at least 11 people were killed by a gas pipeline explosion caused when a dike built to contain the mud flow collapsed-the latest in a string of public debacles for the company, which is part of a conglomerate controlled by the family of Aburizal Bakrie, the country's influential Welfare Minister. In the past two months, Lapindo's corporate parent, PT Energi Mega Persada, has unsuccessfully attempted to unload the beleaguered mining business twice: first, to another Bakrie Group subsidiary...
...paying the price of the works made against nature." CALIN POPESCU-TARICEANU, Romanian Prime Minister, arguing that dike building and land reclamation dating back to the communist period are responsible for the flooding of the Danube...
...stand on the dike, I look in all directions. I see no visible military targets, no industry, no communication lines--just rice fields. Then I suddenly see the bomb craters on both sides of the dike--gaping holes, some 10 meters across and eight meters deep. The crater bottoms, I am told, are two meters below sea level. The crater that had severed the dike is almost filled in again, but the main worry is the bombs that have fallen on the sides of the dike. They cause earthquakes that shatter the dike's foundation and make deep cracks that...
...taken to another major dike in Nam Sach on the Kinh Thay River that was completely severed a few days before. Repair work is dangerous because of unexploded bombs. People in the province are preparing for the worst. I'm told everyone has a boat, that the top floors and roofs of homes have been reinforced and that research is being done on crops that grow underwater.A sulfur butterfly is resting on the lip of a bomb crater. Little things...
...guide and interpreter] Quoc says that the area is bombed almost daily. The Cuban ambassador in Hanoi told me the other day that a dozen or more Cubans, accustomed to working in the fields with the Vietnamese, collapsed after three hours of packing the earth into a dike. Maybe they should have drunk some chrysanthemum-root...