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...Bureau of Reclamation so bitterly opposed by Shatz is an agency of the Department of the Interior. Founded in 1902 to irrigate the barren West, the bureau has spent $7.6 billion to dam, channel, pump and divert almost anything that flows in that vast region. The bureau's proudest monuments: the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River and the Grand Coulee on the Columbia...
...account of the opposition from townspeople and orchestra-members. The wooden doors on the seminary, she said plus the Tanglewood water shortage and the fact that the prisoners might start riots watching the tourists "indulge in the wonders of the area" would probably account for a vote to divert the facility to another town...
Nobody ever knows exactly what game Idi Amin is playing. Practically everybody, however, agrees that his threat to the Americans was designed to divert attention from the murders last month of Ugandan Archbishop Janani Luwum and two Cabinet ministers, and from the continuing massacre of Christian Ugandans. Some observers were convinced that Amin, still smarting from the Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport last July, feared an attack, this time from the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Enterprise, which was standing by off the Kenya coast. At one point, he is said to have considered putting all the Americans aboard...
...free elections and declared that Obote could come home to contest them if he wanted to; Obote wisely stayed away. A few months later, Amin won the support of the Baganda people by bringing the body of King Freddie back to Uganda for burial. But by early 1972, to divert attention from Uganda's growing economic problems, Amin was threatening to invade neighboring Tanzania...
Some people were clearly thinking bigger. House Republican Leader John Rhodes of Arizona revived a ten-year-old proposal to divert some of Alaska's Yukon River before it spills into the Bering Sea. The waters would be channeled instead to the Lower 48. The cost of such a big ditch would be at least $200 billion, but some of that cost could perhaps be recovered by the generation of hydroelectric power as the water descended through the Canadian Rockies...