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American officials do, however, attempt to manage the Colorado, and in the process have been forced to trigger much of the flooding. Engineers at the Glen Canyon and Parker dams have had to open their floodgates wider than ever before. Last winter's Rocky Mountain snowpack was up to three times its usual thickness, and since Memorial Day it has been melting unusually fast. Southwesterners blame Bureau of Reclamation dam managers for not releasing more of the runoff earlier. Says William Claypool of Needles, Calif.: "Anyone over the age of eight who watched TV this winter should have known...
Whatever its wider aims, the offensive failed to squelch the guerrillas, who number anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000. Bolstered by their religious zeal-and, more practically, by a flow of arms and supplies from abroad-they are grimly determined to rid their homeland of the hated invader. "The Islamic faith is the force behind our jihad [holy war]," says Rebel Unit Commander Mohammed Anwar. "If we thought this was an ordinary battle, we could not fight the Soviets...
...better way would there be to take seriously Jesus' mandate: Blessed are the peacemakers! Addressing the contemporary questions of peace and war in a scholarly fashion and in the context of our Christian teaching and tradition would be a great service both to the Catholic community and the wider society. Another important agent in this task of shaping a community of conscience is you. I urge you to lend your own voice to the discussion. You do this, of course, more by example than by word. The church's witness is really your witness because the church...
...Center paralleled similar ones at MIT, Princeton and Columbia. A strong sense of mission, veteran members say, characterized the CFIA's beginnings; scholars hoped to address the "unprecedented task" of stabilizing the sharply divided, bipolar, and newly technologically equipped world. The need the Center first defined was twofold--for wider knowledge, and for men to apply that knowledge to foreign affairs. Accordingly, a staff of permanent faculty members was established to complement a Fellows Program, in which "practitioners"--diplomats, government officials and military officials of all nationalities--could spend a year in academia...
...youngster began tagging along at any GOP functions he could get into. In 1976, he supervised the township youth campaign for a U.S. Congressional candidate. Elliott's man lost but took Bremen by a wider margin than he received in his home township. "The first big break," the senior recalls with mock seriousness...