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...their reservoirs were filled. To avoid that danger, water levels are kept low, even after rainstorms, when dam gates are opened. "We lose a lot of water to the ocean," says Jim Easton, an engineer in the district. In the low-lying Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a 1,000-mile system of dikes, made of sand and peat, has been sinking as the peat oxidizes. Six levees have collapsed since 1980, inundating some of the delta islands. The local water districts cannot afford the $1 billion needed to strengthen the system...
Overton Park downtown, and so the road was built almost to its borders. Finally, however, the Department of Transportation decided against the park route. No one knows how or if the 3.5-mile gap will be completed...
...square-mile heart of Overtown was sealed off, reopened, then closed again. Police helicopters hovered over head. On Wednesday, with the neighbor hood edging toward a full-fledged riot, 250 police, most armed with shotguns, swarmed in once again. Many acted in discriminately: one shopkeeper was clubbed and another was mauled by police dogs. The mobs they faced were amorphous, but sometimes 500 strong...
...Central America, the main aim of the CBI is to fight Marxist-led subversion and insurgency. But in the 2,000-mile-long sweep of islands that dapple the Caribbean Sea, the problems are very different. The area's twelve sovereign nations, nine of which have become independent since 1961, face poverty, high unemployment, crippling debt and declining income from their few marketable commodities. TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter and Correspondent Bernard Diederich visited much of the archipelago and interviewed its worried leaders. Their report...
Aside from export setbacks-prices for copper and cobalt dropped sharply-much of the loan money that flowed in was not spent wisely. Among Mobutu's development projects was a huge undertaking to dam the Zaïre River and to build a 1,100-mile-long power line to the Shaba copper-producing region at a total estimated cost of about $1 billion. Eight months after the power was finally turned on in 1981, the current was switched off. Shaba province happens to be self-sufficient in electricity. Says one Western diplomat: "If ever there was a white...