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...water from the lower Colorado River which runs through five South-western states and several Indian reservations. The Court settled competing claims for the water in 1964 when it allocated rights based on the amount of arable land claimed by the states and tribes. But, due to some administrative snafu which has yet to be explained, government officials representing the tribes in the dispute underestimated by more than 20 percent the amount of reservation land for irrigation--thereby cheating the tribes of close to one-fourth of their water rights. The Court accepted these findings as true, but refused...
...risky. Admits George Livergood, who until the end of May was regional vice president of Group W systems in the Southwest: "Once you give something to a subscriber, you never take it away." When Livergood operated Theta Cable in West Los Angeles (now Group W Cable), an engineering snafu deprived 9,000 customers of CNN during coverage of the first space shuttle flight. Says
...snafu in the chain of command" was partially responsible for the low temperatures which forced students to wear jackets and gloves during mid-year exams in Memorial Hall Monday and Tuesday, Bill Edwards, head proctor for exams in Memorial Hall, said yesterday...
...space of 48 days-a logistical nightmare that flummoxed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the bureau charged with coordinating the resettlement process. Says William Combs, chief spokesman for the FEMA: "We had to set up while it was still happening." One key problem turned out to be a communications snafu between the federal agency and the private organizations that find homes for the refugees after they are cleared. The Immigration and Naturalization Service had approved 4,000 Fort Chaffee refugees for resettlement after concluding that they were not criminals. Simultaneously, the U.S. Catholic Conference, one of the main private agencies...
...great extent, American Jewish criticisms of Begin have been blunted by dismay over the Carter Administration's fumbling Middle East policies, especially the controversial snafu over the United Nations vote. "Carter reacted outrageously," charges Mann. "He practically gave the West Bank to the Palestinians." Explains U.C.L.A. Political Scientist Steven Spiegel: "Carter has deflected some of the criticism from Begin. The Administration has been particularly adept at taking actions that directly challenge Israel." As Carter's hasty retreat on the U.N. vote shows, Washington policymakers are acutely sensitive to such discontent in this election year, when Jewish votes...