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North Dakota's Burlington Dam. The $117 million project on the Souris River is designed to prevent periodic flooding in parts of Minot. The reservoir would be dry most of the time, and the release of the water at flood stage could create almost as much damage to farm land and the ecology as it would prevent in the city...
...block-by-block assault on Christian areas of Beirut. By week's end it had left at least 800 dead and thousands more wounded. As an unmistakable signal of warning to Syrian forces, Israeli warships bombarded Syrian positions in the Lebanese capital, underscoring Jerusalem's determination to prevent the "genocide" of its Christian allies...
...that declaration, Assad departed for Moscow, where he hoped to persuade the Soviets to supply him with more arms and ammunition. The mission was fresh evidence of the heavy costs Syria had incurred since it intervened in Lebanon two years ago. Ironically, Assad's forces moved in to prevent the defeat of the Christian armies by radical Muslim and Palestinian commandos. Since then, however, the Syrians and the Christians have become bitter enemies because the Christians persist-against Assad's advice-in their efforts to partition Lebanon along sectarian lines. Since February more than 650 Syrian soldiers have...
...greatest danger was that the conflict would provoke Israeli intervention on behalf of the reeling Christians. Seeking to prevent the war from spreading, Jimmy Carter sent an appeal to Assad in Moscow, urging him toward "a separation of forces." He followed up by asking Israeli Premier Menachem Begin to refrain from intervening in the conflict. Carter also asked Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev to exert his "considerable influence in the area" to help arrange a truce. At the urging of the U.S., the U.N. Security Council adopted a cease-fire resolution...
...just sit back with your dates and your beer on Saturday nights, and go on making token protests when it's fashionable to do so. But please, don't pretend that you are trying to prevent future Vietnams and punish perpetrators of the old Vietnams. "Physician, heal thyself." Stanley G. Hilton B-School...