A P I It. I IBy SID MOODY

Assoc ated Press Staff Writer 1 - .

Water is the essence of life. 0!] miter 15:01? t:

It is water that man is trying “ p a h ‘ SIM—The In‘ to harness to serve a globe he idus River. rising in the Hima— threatens to owmun by sheerllayas from five main tribuiar- numbers, lies. is one of the great river

All over the world. dams are _ systems of the world. The Indus being bum m- planned—dams wlproject. the largest earth-mov- m-igate, dams {or hydro.eiec.iing task ever undertaken. began tric poweh dams to control‘ln 1960 after long and delicate ﬂoods negotiations lhal several times ,threatened break out into war. The partition of the two countries in 1947 cut through the river and its tributaries. The to- tal cost of the eight dams, 400 miles of canals and 2,500 wells and drainage facilities is esti- mated a'. 51.500.000.000. with the

S. contributing $515,000,000 and Canada. Britain, West Ger- many. Australia, New Zealand

lover the world shows this flood

Water projects threaten war In the Middle East where Israel and Jordan stand at gunpoint over diversion of e Jordan River which flows between the twp nations.

-‘But India and Pakistan. odds over the possession of Kashmir, are co-operating in a gigantic effort to regulate the waters of t ndus River.

sins ave become political levers in the East-West struggle to win friends the uncom- mitted bloc.

The Special Fund of the United Nations haS‘ financed searches for dam sites in 20 countries.

WORLD DAM SURVEY

and the World Bank. $210,000.- 000. When completed by 1970. the Indus system will water an area where 50,000,000 people live.

Nigeria — The International ank for Reconstruction and Development has completed a survey for a 90,000,000 multi- purpose dam that will have a A survey made with the aid larger power capacity than any of Associated Press bureaus dam in Western Europe or more

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Thim Building, Planning Are Big levers Struggles Of East And West

leay rivers over from Buenos Aires. New Zealand—Work is ready BRIDGE HOSTILITY begin on a series of days to Mekong River — Despite the produce electricity from the ihostility that envelops the area. } snow-fed rivers that rise among 'the four neighboring countries [the high volcanic cones of New of Thailand, Cambodia. outhlZea‘land’s North Island. Viet Nam and Laos are particiu Venezuela _ The 5550,0000“) patina in a project to build aiGuri Dam in the Caroni River series of dams along this 2.600-'(-anyons is expected to double mile river. one of Asia's great- i Venezuela's hydro.919cwic om. est. As projected. the plan will 1 put when we first phase is com. take decades to complete and plead in 1967, Its potential of 005‘ $2-000i000»000 , mlnl- 6,000,000 kilowatts is the great- mllm- The dams W111 I’I‘Oduce est of any like project in the 12.100-000»090 kllowa‘lns 9f Power world. Near Lake Maracaibo. annUQHY- .Slnl‘e the beginnlng 05.1he government is also working Planning In 1957. 20 nationS. “ion a six-dam reservoir to irri- United Nations agencies. three gate encugh farm land to sup. Iouda'tions and a number of 90.000 persons,

private companies have partici- IFEW FACTS KNOWN C

than all the hydro-electric power I 700 miles capacity available in all of Af-

rica 10 years ago.

pated in the work and pledged a total of $44,000,000. him—Little has been re- Thailand—Last May. Thailand leased on the mammoth Yellow opened the Bhumibol Dam, said River pI‘Oject that would have ‘10 be the seventh largest con- controlled the disastrous floods ‘crete dam in the world. vtha‘l have swept China since re- ran — The spectacular 647-‘corded history. The ac foot high dam on the Dez River, i figures very li ely means that built with oil revenues and at e ending of Soviet aid may $42,000,000 loan from the World have hurt the project. Bank, is part of an ambitious Him—During the last program to revitalize an impoV- yea'l‘S. the administration erished. arid area. About 120,000 President Adolfo Lopez Mateos persons will he atlected directly spent 637,000,000 on irrigation by controlling the flood~drought projects includin major cycles that yearly afflict the dams. The bulk of the financing area. ' as come from the federal Yugoslavia and Romania— budget. ’l‘hese two countries recently in- Uniwd Arab Republic —- The huge Aswan Dam on the Nile. being built and financed Wlith Soviet help, is nearing comple- tion. It will control the age-old flooding of the Lower Nile Zambia—One of the world’s

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them. To be completed in 1971, $400,000,000 ' will ' the river. and a hydro-electric dam will increase the power uc- tion of both countries by a third.

PLAN TUNNEL Peru—Two hydro-electric and

Zambezi River, already 15 back- ing up water as a huge 11 electric power source.

South rica—The Organg ' . ' River project taking shape in ,lmga'non dams. _ o I the arid heart of South Africa, $187,000.000. are planned m the will cost $630,000,000 and when Andean ioothllls. The larger,.a completed in 30 yam wm wa. dam on the Mantaro River. in- tel- ahd supply power to a back. cludes a 12-mile tunnel cut ward area the size of west Ger. through the mountains to send many. The region Wm be ahie to lhe_.Walel‘S In f i . support three times its present straight drop to the turbines in population. productivity will be a VBHEY-i ‘ _ increased fourfol A 52-mi1e .Argentina—Argentlna ls con- tunnel. one of the world's long- siderihg a $408,009,000 hydro- est. will be drilled as part of electric dam in conjunction With the development, Uruguay which would be th world‘s 15th largest. transmit power over a 730-mile line. Argentina also is contem- plating a $307,000,000 project of

e WOULD TRIPLE POWER Sudan-Jrlhe World Bank com- pleted a survey (or a UN. S cial Fund project which would

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great dams, the Kariba. on the blouse

Omen? by 1978 I! H “mm cost of $111,000,000.

Nepal—Th Special Fund to studying a plan to tap the Karnali River to pro- duce 4,000,000 kilowatts of hy- droelectric power. This is' enough electricity to bring the mountainous Himalayan king-

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Guatemala—A study for thei ;Special Fund indicates hydro-l eleClric development could meet‘

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mand for power by 1976 and that the central American couny try's hydro-electric potential is,

more than 133 times that ex- panded figure. ‘ Canada, the SOVICL Union and. the United States as well as the nations of W e s t e r n Europe, ! have built massive hydro-elec-i trio and irrigation systems in, the past and construction con-l tinues apace. l l

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OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla]l tAPl—The nun, identified sincet the middle ages by her black,| Cumbersome garb. ha: begun to, cast off antiquity to keep pace in this world of the atom. '

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der of St. Ursuline are substi-l tuting modern dress for theirl traditional. medieval - style‘ habit.

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Whether ‘0 “m” the Change! WASHINGTON lAPl—A rec- the District of Columbia and re- Md lord 70.621.479 votes were cast in ceived 486 electoral votes com- Mass

the United States election Nov. pared with 52 for Goldwater. in it. . Alabama no Democratic elec- Final figures show that Presi- to“ Were Pledge“ to 'IOhnson dent Johnson received 43,126,218.and his name did “0E appear 0“ votes, 61 per cent of the total,‘the ban“-

to 27,174,898, or 38.5 per cent! The vote breakdown:

for Barry Goldwater, the Re-l Elec. publican candidate. Other can- Popular Vote Vote didates received 320.353 votes, Johnson Goldw‘r just one-half of one. per cent. in.) (Rep)

In the 1960 election. when the Ala —— 479.08510R late President Kennedy’s popu- Alaska 44,329 22,930 3D lar vote margin was less than Ariz 237,765 242,536 5R one 1' cent above that of Re-‘Ark 314.197 243.264 6D publican Richard Nixon, the Calif 4171.877 2.879.108 40D vote total was 68.828218. .3 rec- Colo 476,024 296,725 6Dl ord to that time. min 826.269 390.996 8D,

President Johnson topped tlleiDel 122.704 78.093 3D

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