Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Plan of Battle. With the help of Russian technicians, the Red Chinese have drawn up an ambitious plan to straddle the Yellow and its tributaries with a vast network of dams. The first phase will take 15 years and cost $1.8 billion; the entire scheme will not be completed for at least half a century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived...
...more than 600,000 people will be moved from their homes and resettled elsewhere. The Sanmen Reservoir will be one of the world's largest. The dam will protect the area from floods, create enough electric power for the industrial needs of three provinces, and help clear the Yellow's muddy waters downstream...
Twenty-eight smaller dams have already been built on the Yellow and its tributaries, and 31 others are in progress. The Reds also plan to attack the Yellow with two other mammoth reservoirs at Liukia Gorge in Kansu Province and Lungyang Gorge in Tsinghai Province. They are due to be completed...
...Spoils of Battle. The overall plan calls for converting the river into a sort of staircase by building 46 dams along its middle and lower reaches, controlling its tributaries with 24 large reservoirs. The battle to subdue the Yellow will be long and fierce, but the spoils of battle are worth the effort, even though the peasants, who know the Yellow best, are convinced it will be tamed only "when the sun rises in the West...
...stage of Quito's gilt-trimmed Sucre Theater last week, a new President put on the blue-red-yellow sash of office. For Camilo Ponce Enriquez, 44, the problems that go with the sash are likely to prove especially burdensome. He is a Conservative in a country that has been politically dominated by Liberals since the revolution of 1895. Only a freakish three-way split among Liberal factions in last June's election made it possible for Ponce to win at all, and even so, he got only 29% of the votes, edging out the runner...