Word: waterways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after a long, patient battle that could serve as a model for river cleanups everywhere, the waterway is again becoming the "sweet Thames" of British poets. No fewer than 97 varieties of fish have resumed residence there. Back too are the famed swans, as well as less common birds such as the pochard, a type of duck, and the dunlin, a sandpiper. In March, the Thames Water Authority will begin restocking the upper reaches of the tidal Thames with what the agency's boss, Hugh Fish, calls the "most persnickety offish"-the Atlantic salmon...
Local Philadelphia residents refer to the Schuykill River as the "Sure Kill" because of its rampant pollution and acid pH balance. The waterway did indeed mean death for the Pennsylvania and Navy heavyweight crews on Saturday, as Harvard's varsity, J.V. and freshmen murdered them by convincing margins of at least a length...
...American patriots in the Canal Zone could agree on something. "God, I wish it was over," people on both sides kept saying as they anxiously awaited this week's U.S. Senate vote on the second canal treaty. The first treaty, providing for the continuing American defense of the waterway, had been approved with only one vote to spare. The vote on the second pact, which would gradually transfer authority over the canal to Panama, promised to be just as unnervingly close. After all the months of expectations, a negative vote would embitter U.S.-Panama relations and perhaps lead...
...hardcore right wing, who thought they had a sure-fire issue and promptly started paganda barrage has often made a hash of the facts. Many people have been led to believe that the treaty constitutes some kind of massive giveaway that will leave the esteemed and still vital waterway in the clutches of rapacious crypto-Communists who will thereupon thumb their noses at the helpless giant to their north. Nothing could be further from the truth...
...pact profoundly commits the U.S. to the defense of the canal from here to eternity. Until 2000, the U.S. maintains control of the waterway; at the turn of the century, Panama takes over, but the U.S. has the right to keep the canal open and functioning. Indeed this provision has been strengthened because of the doubts among treaty opponents. Responding to their pressure, the White House accepted two reservations that clearly state that the U.S. can send troops into Panama to protect the canal if it is shut down for virtually any reason...