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...this ditch for Mike!" shouted Mississippi's John Bell Williams, and minutes later, a mighty chorus of "ayes" echoed through the House chamber. The "ditch" is a projected 120-mile waterway that will connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River at a cost estimated as high as $3 billion. The project has a flock of critics. But its sponsor is Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, 79, the Congressman responsible each year for doling out some $4 billion in pork-barrel projects to his colleagues, and most House members would sooner abandon Panama than damn Kirwan's canal...
...against Senator Smith "a little-known opponent" [July 1]. Democratic State Senator Elmer H. Violette-as chairman of the Special Legislative Power Study Committee, Interim Study Committee on Allagash, Citizens for Quoddy-Dickey Committee, and author or sponsor of the Fair Housing Act Criminal Procedure Reform Bill. Allagash Wilderness Waterway Act-is very well known indeed to Maine citizens as their most prominent and respected state legislator. The incumbent knows that Violette is a young and scrappy ex-athlete who for 25 years has been coming out of the Maine political ball park a winner. As brother of the candidate...
When President Gamal Abdel Nasser seized the canal from its British and French owners, the Times of London, in a typical Western view, declared: "An international waterway of this kind cannot be worked by a nation of as low technical and managerial skills as the Egyptians." Now, ten years after Nasser's nationalization, it is clear that the Egyptians are, if anything, better capable of running the canal than the old Suez Canal...
...that the FPC had no right to allow private dams on the Snake because they would affect water flow and power output at nine downstream plants in which the Government has invested $1.67 billion. That, ruled the court, "would mean that the existence of one federal dam in a waterway would require that any future dams therein be federally constructed. There is no such requirement...
Compared to the Mississippi or the Missouri, the 306-mile-long Hudson is a whippersnapper waterway. Nonetheless, there is not a river on the continent that surpasses it in natural beauty; the great Karl Baedeker called its vistas "grander and more inspiring" than the Rhine's. Nor has any other American stream earned so rich a place in the nation's history, art and folklore. Yet the Shatemuc, "the water that flows both ways," as the Algonquin Indians called it, today is the most wantonly abused river in the U.S., its banks in many places a riparian slum...