| Description | Folder of papers comprising presscuttings from the Baghdad Observer and other newspapers during the mid 1980s, as well as photocopied magazine articles and reports, Crusoe's handwritten notes and press faxes, concerning Iraq's dams and reservoirs, the Tariq bin Ziyad hydrological survey, the Makhmur, Arbil, Saddam and other irrigation projects, artesian wells, the dams of New Hindiya, Rizga, Doukan, Haditha and Dohuk, and an exchange of telex messages between Crusoe and Rade Koncar regarding their contract for installing a pump station at Kirkuk, an obituary of the civil engineer and dam-builder Geoffrey Binnie (1908-89), and a fax from the German-Italian Mosul Dam Joint Venture to MEED, dated 6 April 1989, seeking extracts from past issues of MEED journal about the political and economic situation of Iraq during the recent war with Iran. |