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...years, on and off, the U.S. and Canada had been talking about a treaty providing for cooperative development of the Columbia River, and the failure to agree on such a treaty had slowed up the growth of the U.S. Northwest. Example: the Libby Dam project in northwestern Montana had been stalled for a decade because Canada was reluctant to see a U.S. dam built on the Kootenai River, a Columbia tributary that rises in Canada, crosses into the U.S., then swings northward across the border again...
Opening the Way. For the U.S. Northwest, the treaty broadened a vista that first opened in 1792, when Captain Robert Gray, fur trader from Boston, steered the schooner Columbia past the dangerous reefs at the river's mouth and named the mighty stream after his ship. John Boit, fifth mate of the Columbia, wrote prophetically that "This River in my opinion, wou'd be a fine place for to sett up a Factory." The Columbia became a vital artery of the region's fur trade, and then of the salmon-canning and lumber industries, but only...
Paradoxically, only a few hundred miles to the northwest, the Congo's lush Equator and Leopoldville provinces had bananas, nuts and palm oil aplenty. But the transport breakdown and regional feuding kept normal trading at a standstill. Only hope lies in the crash feeding programs undertaken by the United Nations, whose officials estimate that a minimum of 120 tons of food must be distributed daily, but until recently have had to make do with less than half that volume. To fill its supply pipelines, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization is canvassing U.N. member nations...
...Dooley built his first hospital at Nam Tha, a tiny Laotian village just five miles south of the Red China border, and his second at Muong Sing, 20 mi. to the northwest. He handled as many as 100 outpatients a day, wrote two more books (The Edge of Tomorrow, The Night They Burned the Mountain), and recklessly shrugged off the possibility of ambush as he pushed his Jeep through guerilla-infested jungle on daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley...
...shouts directions from a stepladder. By such tricks, Klein has become at 32 the fad of gallery-going France, and his prices have risen fourfold in the past two years. Last week he invaded West Germany with an eyebrow-raising exhibit in the textile town of Krefeld, twelve miles northwest of Düsseldorf. The good people of Krefeld hardly knew what to make...