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Mekong River Could Bring Southeast Asia Prosperity
Foreign News Analyst notes monsoon floods will transform the Mekong from a war obstacle into an economic engine. President Johnson proposed a one billion dollar aid program to extend medicine, schools, electrification, and food shipments. Mekong studies involve 21 nations with projects like the Pak Mun Dam planned to make the river navigable and power capable, irrigation for 2.5 million acres, and a reservoir larger than Lake Mead.
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Phil Newsom
Southeast Asia
Mekong
Vientiane
Laos
Thailand
Saigon
Viet Nam
Johnson
United States
U.S
Tibet
Cambodia
Economic Commission
United Nations
Pa Mong
China Sea
Lake Mead
Hoover Dam