Artisans� city
The works of Artisans
Michail SERGEEV, Yerkanat ABENI
ALMATY, May 21 (THE GLOBE)
�It is great that during the period of economic reforms, Kazakhstan has not forgotten about the restoration and development of people�s arts and handicrafts,� the US ambassador announced at a ceremony inaugurating the construction of shops for craftsmen of the non-governmental organisation �Sheber Aul� in the village of Kok-shoky near Almaty.
Texaco International has allotted the grant to the craftsmen to begin construction of the project.
According to the ambassador, this two-year project united the efforts of �Texaco International�, the craftsmen, the US Agency on International Development (USAID), the Akim of the Almaty region Mr. Nurkadilov and his administration, the project �Aid to craftsmen�, US Peace Corps and the �Counterpart Consortium�.
According to the Managing Director of �Texaco� in Kazakhstan, the projected building includes six shops to work with skin, wood, metal and jewellery, as well as two textile and felt shops. In addition, there are plans to construct a sales salon, and a chaikhana (teahouse). The latter, will simultaneously be a hall used for meetings with all the parties interested in the development of the national handicrafts.
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By Alessandro RAIMONDI
BERN, May 21 (THE GLOBE)
Also in 1998 the Swiss Direction of Development and Co-operation, DCC, will be in the frontline to contribute to the solution of what seems becoming the biggest problem for humanity: supply of drinkable water.
Studies on the subject have identified it will be the chronic scarcity of water the reason for wars in the next millennium, almost certainly in the XXI century.
Water as oil then, and even more, specially in areas such as the Middle East and Africa, where mighty rivers as the Nile, the Jordan, the Tigris and the Euphrates are totally responsible for the development of the areas they cross in their run to reach the seas.
Africa, above all, holds one of the most critical positions in the globe, its thirld-world countries are totally depending for their very existence from the precious element that mother nature is so poorly generous to give in most areas there.
That�s why in 1998 DDC has awarded some 37 million SF to provide potable water of which have benefitted 19 countries. Almost half of that bonanza, 16 million SF, has been allocated to the African continent.
�Last year the Swiss contribution has not only been limited to the mere money availability, but DDC � reports Roland Python, DDC�s responsible for hydro-resources and related infrastructures � has tried to promote a closer co-operation between peoples and governments�. The executives of concerned countries need not to be left alone in managing hydro-resources, but helped at all levels so to fix duties and responsabilities.
DDC has started an awakening campaign so that local communities may be involved in the management and distribution of the precious liquid resource.
26 may 1907 Academy Award-winning actor John Wayne was born. 26 may 1951 Sally Ride was born, astronaut, 1st American woman in space.
25th, 1979, 275 people died in America�s worst domestic air disaster when an American Airlines DC-10 crashed during takeoff at Chicago�s O�Hare airport. 26 may 1981, fourteen people were killed when a Marine jet crashed onto the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz off Florida. 26 may 1991, a Lauda Air Boeing 767 crashed in Thailand, killing all 223 people aboard. 27 may 1941, the German battleship �Bismarck� sank off France, with a loss of 2300 lives.
25 may 1981 Twenty-five year old Dan Goodwin was looking to have some fun this day. So, with nothing but three suction cups and a Spiderman cartoon costume, Goodwin began to scale the world�s tallest building � the Sears Tower � in Chicago, IL. Goodwin climbed for six hours, with Chicago�s boys in blue doing their best to safely stop him from the perilous climb. When Goodwin reach the 50th floor of the skyscraper, he stopped for a few minutes, talked with the police and, assuring them of his safety, made the rest of the climb in about an hour. The police had agreed not to bother him until he got to the top where he was arrested for trespassing. Goodwin was released after paying a fine.
26 may 1977 The man called The Human Fly, George Willig, did the impossible � and dumb � this day. He scaled the World Trade Center in New York City, by fixing himself up to the window washer mechanism and walked straight up until falling into police custody when he reached the top! Isn�t it amazing what some people do when they have nothing but time on their hands - and a buck ten? It took Willig three and a half hours to make the climb, and $1.10 in fines - a penny per floor.
27 may 1937, the newly completed Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco and Marin County, California, was opened to the public.
May, 26
The Kazakh Concert Hall. The opera �Aida�. 6.00.p.m.
The Kosteyev State National Museum. Exhibition of the works of S. Kalmykov, I. Itkind, V. Eifert, and Rudolf Nuriev�s painting.
From 10.00 a.m. to 5.30 p.m. Closed on Monday.
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