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...President, even though they believe, as one phrased it, that passing the package will be "a bitch." Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "The solution requires the best that is in us. This is a supreme test and it requires a supreme effort. Yet I think there's a reservoir of courage and strength and patriotism here that will respond." House Democratic Leader Tip O'Neill readily concurred, declaring that passage of the President's package will involve "the toughest fight this Congress has ever...
...carries with him is the doom of self-doubt. "Well, Your Highness, you've got a good thing here," he says to Itelo, prince of the gentle Arnewi. But in a vainglorious attempt to rid the Arnewi of a plague of frogs, Henderson blows up their only reservoir. They cast him out of their mini-Eden along with his companion Romilayu, who had warned in vain: "Perhaps it better to guide no other than yourself...
...high) would be built in an area prone to earthquakes. U.S. Geological Survey scientists say there is a dangerous earthquake fault less than a mile from the proposed site. The Association of Engineering Geologists warned last year that an earthquake could shatter the dam, releasing a reservoir 40 miles long containing 736 billion gallons of water. The terrifying result: a 100 ft. high wall of water that would rupture other dams downstream and all but drown the Sacramento area. At last week's federal hearing on the project, Civil Engineer Harry Cedergren said that the collapse of the Auburn...
...LAKE LEAK. Plutonium from improperly handled wastes of the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant near Broomfield, Colo., has leaked into the town's Great Western Reservoir. Federal officials insist that the plutonium, one of the most lethal of all nuclear products, is harmless as long as it stays on the bottom of the 40-acre reservoir. But residents of Broomfield-aware that even the tiniest amounts of plutonium in the body can cause cancer-are unconvinced. They have asked the Federal Government for the $30 million the town will have to spend to create a new water supply. Meanwhile...
Even as far east as Illinois, where there were some heavy rains last week, wells are going dry. In Virginia, Ill. (pop. 1,800), the town reservoir has only a 30-day supply of water left. Lee Reynolds shut down his car wash. The local Laundromat was about to close-but it burned down first. Water is so scarce in many South Dakota towns, like Toronto (pop. 200), that assembly of a rescue "rain train" of 100 tank cars carrying 20,000 gallons each from the Missouri River is under consideration. Toronto's Lutheran pastor, the Rev. Daniel Chell...