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...actions in Latin America are outrageous. Not only are our principles of honor and justice being dragged through the mud, but our conduct is an insult to every democracy...
...night last week a Forest Service employee stationed in Coldwater Canyon, high above the town of North Ogden, Utah, heard trees snapping and boulders rolling. One hundred residents fled for shelter to a Mormon center moments before a river of mud slithered into three houses. North Ogden Mayor Don Colvin, who is also a Mormon Church officer, informed another church official of the crisis. In less than an hour 200 Mormon volunteers had arrived to reinforce the banks of Coldwater Creek. By 3 a.m., 5,000 sandbags were in place. Says Colvin: "People were out here all night, filling those...
...weeks ago, mud and rocks crashed down Rudd Creek Canyon, burying at least five houses, damaging 100 more in Farmington, 17 miles north of Salt Lake City, and sending a Mormon volunteer brigade into action. Last week 15 volunteers spent an entire day cleaning out the mud-filled basement of Paul Ward, 64. They threw watermelon-size rocks onto a conveyor belt and pushed buckets of muck through a cellar window to a team of 20 men, women and children, who passed the pails from hand to hand. Says a grateful Ward: "I wasn't expecting anybody to come...
...melting under suddenly warm spring weather. Torrential rains have further loosened the soil, which has been tumbling down into the canyons, creating an earth dam. As water builds up behind the dams, it is only a matter of time before the unstable materials start to give way and a mud slide is born...
...heavy rains and runoff in Utah turned a main street in Salt Lake City into a river, where enterprising citizens were catching fish. But mud slides in towns to the north pose a greater and continuing danger. "We can control the water, but the mud just goes where it wants to," explained Davis County Deputy Sheriff Harry Jones. "All we can do is try to anticipate where it is going and then get out of the way." Says another deputy, Pat Bird: "When it gets dark, nobody knows when it is coming or where it's coming from...