Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under consideration are several more expensive ways out, including a 65-mile canal to divert Wellton-Mohawk's salty waters to the Gulf of California...
...kings, princes, sheikhs, presidents and dictators of twelve other Arab nations poured into Cairo in answer to Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser's call for unified action against Israel's intention this spring to divert the waters of the Jordan River to irrigate the Negev desert. Declared Israel's Labor Minister: "We will pump water even under gunfire, and we will defend ourselves against any attack...
Though the sessions were secret, the emerging Arab strategy was not. The summit meeting placed on Jordan, Syria and reluctant Lebanon the burden of controlling the headwaters and tributaries of the Jordan River that rise in their territory. By constructing dams and canals, the Arab states can divert the 'flow of the Yarmuk, Banias, Hasbani and Dan rivers, and thereby reduce the water level of the Jordan far below Israel's requirements...
...bitter, blustery, cloud-darkened afternoon when the papal plane arrived at Amman. Because fog and overcast had briefly threatened to divert the flight to Beirut, Jordan's King Hussein, a first-rate pilot, went to the control tower to supervise the landing. Guns barked out a 21-gun salute as the Pope stepped out of the plane; girls from a Roman Catholic school curtsied and offered him bouquets of flowers. In his deliberate, Sandhurst English, the tiny Moslem king welcomed the Pope to Jordan and hailed him as "a great leader in the service of humanity and the service...
Jane's Verdict. Nikita Khrushchev has stretched his nation's resources dangerously thin. The 1964 and 1965 budgets published in Moscow last week showed sharp cutbacks in plans for such key sectors of heavy industry as steel and electric power in order to divert massive additional funds to the lagging agriculture program and the backward chemical industry. Perhaps the lack of capital was also the cause of the declining rate in Russia's air and space spectaculars. The latest edition of Jane's All the World's Aircraft lists only one new Soviet plane...