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Canyon, the FPC last month rejected a bid by the Pacific Northwest Power Co. to build two more private dams-costing $170 million-downstream at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley. FPC said it favors a far bigger $450 million dam farther downstream at Nez Perce, which would produce 1,672,000 kw. and store 3,900,000 acre-feet of water, also curb the flood-prone Salmon River, a wild branch of the Snake. Though FPC left Nez Perce open to private construction by Pacific Northwest Power, a four-company combine, powermen feared that such a dam would almost certainly...
...mean expropriation. Three Syrian trade officials flew off to Moscow, anxious to justify the press stories of bountiful Soviet aid "without strings attached." They took with them ambitious requests for Soviet rubles to build roads, railroads and a Euphrates irrigation dam to rival those that Iraq is building downstream with its oil royalties. Now would be seen how much Soviet Russia intended to do for the Syrian people, beyond making their country an arms dump...
Salvation in a Shed. There was only one instinct, one Air Force rule of survival, to follow: go downstream. And down Pilot Steeves struggled day after day-crawling, hobbling and sliding through snow-filled gorges, sleeping in hollow logs and under sheltering rocks. In 18 days he went 25 miles, finally got to Simpson Meadow (elevation: 6,000 ft.). There, crazed from hunger, he stumbled on a park ranger's storage shed. Breaking in, he found more matches, fishhooks, a map of the area and a tiny store of provisions-a can of beans, hash, tomatoes. He wrapped himself...
...planned 16 dams between the snow-veined mountains of Kurdistan and the steaming shores of the Persian Gulf. It has completed two great barrages that this year caught the flood waters of the Tigris and Euphrates and led them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream its contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. Land under cultivation has jumped 40% as 20,000 families (an estimated 150,000 persons) have settled on newly reclaimed Go-acre...
Death. Sergeant Julitz and three others managed to make it to the opposite shore. But 19 more were carried, struggling and gasping in their heavy combat gear, downstream towards the Iller Bridge. Four were rescued. Fifteen went to their deaths. It was the first major training accident in the history of West Germany's nascent (96,000-strong) Bundeswehr...