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What made management sense to the U.N. did not conform to Asian values. Project members favored the imaginative and inspirational Schaaf. As for being palatable to the Communists, Schaaf says: "We want to produce irrigation and power for the people of the Mekong basin. We don't give a damn what their politics are." Representatives of the four nations refused to accept Umbricht, threatened to sever ties with the U.N. and hire their own man, an Asian from one of the Mekong countries. They finally approved William Van Der Oord, a U.N. official from The Netherlands-but only...
This week, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) refused to let the club build its new sailing facility at an MDC-owned site on the Somerville shore of the Mystic River Basin...
This August. the MDC told the alumni group that it could build the sailing facility somewhere on the Mystic River Basin. Though the Somerville side of the basin is now out of the question, an MDC spokesman said yesterday that the agency might approve building the facility on the Medford shore of the basin...
Radcliffe sailors had to settle for second place behind M.I.T. Sunday in the M.I.T. Women's Invitational Regatta. M.I.T. topped the Cliffie sailors. 72-80, while Boston University finished third with 99 points. The regatta was held on the Charles River Basin. the site of Radcliffe's victory in the Women's National Intercollegiate Sailing Championship last June...
Ferocious Neighbors. The evidence comes, in part, from Africa's Omo River Basin, a fossil-rich area where the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya and the Sudan meet. There, a University of Chicago expedition has found 40 prehistoric teeth and two jawbones buried in volcanic ash that is perhaps 4,000,000 years old. The expedition's leader, Anthropologist F. Clark Howell, is convinced that the creatures are members of the Australopithecus family, even though they must have belonged to a branch that probably did not eat meat or make tools. Despite their proximity to various ferocious neighbors...