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...farmers must buy artificial fertilizer to do what nature in the past provided free. Because of the dam, the Nile waters flow more slowly now. More Egyptians than ever are infected with schistosomiasis, a debilitating disease caused by tiny worms in the river. In the delta, salt water pushing inland from the Mediterranean is gradually destroying some of Egypt's precious few acres of fertile land. In some areas the desert, because of present wind patterns, is moving toward the Nile Delta at the rate of eight miles per year...
...other consumer goods by 7% on Jan. 3. Bethlehem Steel, the second largest producer, followed with an announcement that it would raise prices on most of its products by an average of 5.5% effective Feb. 1 for sheet goods, March 1 for structural steel. By week's end Inland Steel, U.S. Steel and other companies had fallen in line behind Bethlehem, and Wheeling said it would shave down its 7% rise...
Nuclear Power. Can the Northwest use the atom to generate electricity without endangering the environment and the people? Yes, says Ray emphatically. Oil. Should supertankers be allowed to carry oil from Alaska through Puget Sound, the Northwest's inland sea? Yes again, argues...
...hottest current issue is how to handle Alaska's North Slope oil. Washington's four major refineries are located on the eastern shore of Puget Sound at Cherry Point, 100 miles north of Seattle and 75 miles inland from the sea. The refineries are now supplied by tankers limited in size by state law to 125,000 tons. The oil companies and Ray want the figure raised to 250,000 tons, arguing that the bigger loads would allow savings leading to lower prices for consumers. Surplus oil would be passed on to the Midwest by pipeline...
...time the winds subsided last week at least 12,000 people had died in India's most devastating tropical storm since 1971. What had turned the storm into a killer were the 18-ft. tidal waves that swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million...