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benefit. 



So this avoided a war, this Indus Waters Treaty, and 

 it triggered off a huge irrigation development, particularly 

 the link canals, and the tube wells were part of it. That 

 was largely the AID contribution, trying to do something 

 about waterlogging and salinity. There were American 

 engineers who were involved with the SCARPS development. 

 Salinity Control and Reclamation Projects. That was an 

 American engineering project. So was the Tarbela Dam. 



There were people from other countries also involved, 

 particularly, a British group called Hunting Technical 

 Services. They were basically an engineering planning 

 outfit. They accumulated tremendous amounts of data on the 

 flow of the rivers, on the flow of the canals, on the 

 quality of the soil, on the areas that were waterlogged and 

 saline, every aspect of the country. We used their data to 

 great effect. 



They were Canadian and British. They didn't actually 

 participate in planning and engineering works. They were 

 basically a data-gathering organization, so we would know 

 what to do. 



After the report was written and submitted, then we 

 talked about it at various places, including the Pugwash 

 meetings and in Washington at AID Research Advisory 

 Committee meetings and many places. It became a famous 

 enterprise, a famous effort. 



Sharp: 



Revelle: 



Sharp: 

 Revelle : 



JFK Snapshots 



I wanted to ask you about the death of President Kennedy. I 

 wondered if there was any intact on the work. Most of the 

 work, except for the writing of the report, had been — . 



By that time 



He wasn't killed until November of '53. 

 everything was just about finished. 



You were working on the report? 



It was all over really. We had practically gone to press. 

 It came out in January of 1964, so there was really nothing 

 left to do. We went back to Pakistan several times and 

 talked with these people after we had written a preliminary 

 version, and then revised it and talked again with them. 

 That was when I told you about my morning with Bhutto. 



This leads us naturally into the Pugwash Movement, but 

 I want to finish this part if you have any other questions 

 about it. 



Sharp: No, I don't have any other questions. 



Revelle: I was in Vienna when President Kennedy was assassinated. I 



was at an ICSU meeting. I was one of the American delegates 

 — to the ICSU general assembly in Vienna. We were at a 

 party being given by the mayor of Vienna when the word came 



