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Snitches are becoming angels. Last month in Fort Collins, Colo., two girls warned police about three students who were then discovered with weapons and plans to attack Preston Junior High. Just last week in Twentynine Palms, Calif., Victoria Sudd, 17, watched the Santee horror unfold and then told her mom that she had heard two boys make comments on the bus about killing people. Sudd's father contacted the authorities, who quickly obtained a search warrant for the homes of the boys. The cops found a rifle and a list of 16 students whom the boys allegedly were going...
...being built to carry needed water to Sudan's arid north and to Egypt. The channel could irrigate some 600,000 acres of land by diverting 30% of the flow of the White Nile River, as much as 5.2 billion gal. of water a day, around the Sudd, a vast swampland in southern Sudan...
...Sudd, Arabic for barrier, is aptly named. Its central 7,000 sq. mi. are permanently clogged with reeds and papyrus and infested with 63 species of mosquito. From May to October, the White Nile floods and temporarily extends the swamp another 4,300 sq. mi. Says Daniel Yong, a member of the area's nomadic Dinka tribe and a Jonglei Canal project official: "In the rainy season there is water everywhere, but in the dry season you can die of thirst." The Sudd proved an obstacle to 19th century explorers, but today it is more of a hindrance...
...canal skirting the Sudd was first envisioned by British colonial administrators at the turn of the century. The current $260 million project is being built by a French consortium, the Compagnie de Constructions Internationales (CCI). To dig the 15-ft.-deep, 170-ft.-wide channel, nearly half of which is now excavated, CCI is using 20 bulldozers, five road graders, three cranes and five shovels. The star performer is clearly "Sarah," a West German-built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved...
That prospect, however, leaves some experts uneasy. Opening up the region to commerce is sure to undermine the cattle-herding societies of the estimated 1 million Dinka and Nuer tribesmen who roam the Sudd. "But most of the traditional people want to change," contends Jonathan Jenness of the United Nations Development Program. "They don't want to be hungry, sick and uneducated and, most important, without political clout...