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...level dikes in the southeastern part of the country.The danger: more than 300 miles of ancient, water-soaked dikes have been severely weakened by flooded rivers. As the waters recede, sections of the dikes may begin to shift -- even burst. More than a quarter-million Dutch have already fled, fearing the worst flood disaster since 1953, when 1,800 people died. "There's still a massive evacuation underway, and large chunks of Holland are completely deserted," says TIME Amsterdam reporter James Geary...
Some 250,000 people fled southeastern plains of the Netherlands today after continued flooding submerged towns and villages, while cars and trucks jammed the water-logged highways. Even worse, crisis management experts are warning that the country's 300-mile network of dikes, which dates to the Middle Ages, is "soaked to the limit" and could burst. The Finance Ministry put the price tag for a "worst-case scenario" at $46 billion...
...MEHDI BAZARGAN, 87, former Prime Minister of Iran; in Zurich. Originally an engineering professor, the soft-spoken Bazargan was imprisoned for his human-rights activism during the reign of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, making Bazargan a natural choice for Prime Minister of the provisional government formed after the Shah fled in 1979. But Bazargan's relationship with the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's Revolutionary Council soon deteriorated into a bitter power struggle, culminating in his resignation just nine months later...
...percent. This is quite a bit different from the four percent inflation and four percent growth that had been predicted a month ago, before the devaluation. In addition, he hopes to cut government spending by about 1.3 percent. More ominously, though, nearly $8 billion in foreign investment has fled the country since the drop. This is about 12 percent of all foreign investment in Mexico...
...graduate student, whose name police refused to release, declined. One of the teens then threatened him with a six-inch, camouflage hunting knife and began to search his coat and pants pockets. The student gave the suspects $80, and they fled from the scene...