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...courts have tended to agree. Last February a federal court enjoined the Army Engineers from damming the Cossatot River in Arkansas. In a recent decision, Federal District Judge John L. Smith concurred with E.D.F.'s arguments and issued a preliminary injunction halting all work on a proposed waterway linking the Tennessee River to the Tombigbee...
...canal's east bank. Egypt retaliated by sending SAM missiles aloft to knock down an aging SA-2 transport, which Israel said was flying several miles away from the canal. Seven men were killed when the Stratocruiser crashed in the Sinai desert, 15 miles from the waterway. Israeli Phantoms avenged them by raking Egyptian positions near the west bank with rockets. The Egyptians fired back, and on both sides of the canal ground troops were on alert...
...change? With as many as 300,000 applications, processing would be impossible to accomplish in any reasonable time. At the core of the problem was the fact that the guidelines for effluent controls bombed out: it was impossible to come up with a standard which would fit every waterway involved...
...knows how many unexploded bombs and shells lie beneath the azure waters of the Suez Canal to threaten dredging operations-even if the Egyptians and Israelis should come to terms on reopening the waterway. The known obstacles, however, are relatively few: the sister passenger steamers Mecca and Ismailia, scuttled on orders of Egypt's late President Nasser at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; part of a pontoon bridge; two small tugs sunk downstream from the city of Ismailia; and the wreckage of a barge twelve miles north of Suez. The Egyptians calculate that they could reopen...
Despite the advent of supertankers, nearly 90% of the world's ships could use the canal if it were to reopen. Even at the prewar depth of 38 ft., vessels of up to 125,000 tons can traverse the waterway in ballast, cutting off twelve days on the round trip between Europe and the Persian Gulf...