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...Salaam (Arabic for "Haven of Peace") further belies its name by serving as the home base for at least seven African insurgent parties dedicated to eradicating colonialism and apartheid from the south. Largest is the Mozambican Liberation Front-Frelimo-which maintains a military training camp 40 miles northwest of Dar, where some 500 young Mozambican refugees receive weapons training with rifles supplied by Algeria...
Over the years the U.S. has studied every likely spot from southern Mexico to the jungles of northwest Colombia with the idea of building a new canal-at sea level and hence without the need for locks. *In 1945 Congress ordered the first broad investigation of new routes; at least 30 were considered. When Panama's President Roberto F. Chiari visited Washington in 1962, President Kennedy told him that any renegotiated treaty would have to take into account U.S. plans for a new canal...
...nine years, Robinson and Pacific Northwest, a consortium of four private power firms, have been seeking approval to build a $257 million, 670-ft.-high dam at Mountain Sheep in the middle reaches of the Snake River astride the Oregon-Idaho border. Competing with Pacific Northwest was the Washington Public Power Supply System, a group of 16 public utilities, which offered to build a comparable dam at Mountain Sheep or an even bigger one (800 ft. high and costing $369 million) farther north at Nez Perce. And bucking both was Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, who wanted the Federal Government...
Last week, by a 3-2 decision, the Federal Power Commission finally gave the nod to Pacific Northwest. Robinson was jubilant. It was, he declared, "a great victory for multiple-purpose resource development by private capital...
First, the commission ruled out Nez Perce because it would have killed more migrating Chinook salmon and steelhead fish than the High Mountain Sheep Dam. Some 200,000 fishermen and conservationists in the Northwest are already alarmed at the toll that such great dams in the Columbia River Basin as Bonneville and Grand Coulee are exacting on the $12 million-a-year salmon business. Second, the five Kennedy-appointed commissioners unanimously knocked down the Government's dam-building bid on the grounds that Pacific Northwest could do everything the Government proposed to do, and faster. And finally...