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Harvard couldn't build off its momentum and sank to a new low Saturday, losing to Union, 5-3. The Crimson had never lost to the Dutch men in the teams' seven meetings since Union moved up from Division III, but for the first 20 minutes Saturday the Crimson looked like the team making the transition...
...interest is rising in Canada and across Europe. Meanwhile, the Monterrey-based magnate Javier Garza-Calderon of Mexico's Grupo Domos bought up half the Cuban phone system in a $1.5 billion deal last year. June saw the arrival of Cuba's first foreign financial institution, the Dutch ING Bank. British companies are looking into oil exploration--even though France's giant Total has recently pulled out--and Unilever, the British-Dutch giant, produces toiletries and detergents for the domestic Cuban market. Italy's Benetton now boasts five retail stores on the island, and plans three more...
...most extensive overflows hit France, where flooding to one degree or another occurred across almost all of the country's northern half. The Meuse, or Maas to German and Dutch speakers, topped off at 6.15 m above its normal level and spread in some places 3 to 4 km beyond its banks in the waterlogged Ardennes. At least 3,000 houses were inundated in Charleville-Mezieres, the site of widespread damage just 13 months ago. Citizens passing a bronze plaque defining the 1993 high-water level watched the Meuse gradually reach and swallow the marker last week...
...reinforcements to that front. This, after all, is a defensive line that breached disastrously in Zeeland in 1953, resulting in some 1,800 deaths. Although nothing like that calamity afflicted Europe last week--all told, the floods killed about 30 people, including only three in the Netherlands--the Dutch seemed prepared to take no more chances with the river dikes. Built of clay packed around a sand core, the structures in many parts date back to the 13th century. The village of Ochten seemed especially jeopardized as water soaked through the sand interior, releasing telltale flows of brown water...
Emergency personnel deployed to sandbag the walls and line the dikes' river sides with plastic sheeting could only help relieve part of the crisis. In shipshape Dutch style, the evacuation proceeded in a remarkably orderly manner; the notices went out by post. Even so, a bit of unforeseen chaos ensued when some highways became paralyzed with traffic. Seemingly every car and truck that could move was pressed into carrying refugees burdened with cargo ranging from pigs to pianos. Saving livestock put unusual pressures on vehicles and roads. As the exodus progressed, the Ouwehands Zoo in Rhenen, just north...