Considers S. 1144 and related bills, to authorize Army Corps of Engineers construction of 15 flood control and water resources development projects, pt. 1; Considers S. 537, to amend the Flood Control Act to authorize funds for Army Corps of Engineers river bank stabilization and flood control project on the Missouri River below Garrison Dam in North Dakota, pt. 2; Considers Army Corps of Engineers flood control project on the Tanana River at Fairbanks, harbor development project at Kake Harbor, and navigation project at the Sergius and Whitestone Narrows in Alaska. Focuses on Tanana River project in wake of August 1967 flood, pt. 3.

Mitchell Lerner now examines for the first time the details of this crisis and uses the incident as a window through which to better understand the limitations of American foreign policy during the Cold War." "Drawing on thousands of pages of recently declassified documents from President Lyndon Johnson's administration, along with dozens of interviews with those involved, Lerner provides the most complete and accurate account of the Pueblo incident to date."--BOOK JACKET.