At least 130,000 acres (52,609 hectares) of rich, bottom farmland were sacrificed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers this week by blowing a two-mile hole in the Birds Point levee (three blasts in three days) in Southeast Missouri to protect the town of Cariro, Illinois, population 2831. It will take many months for the land to dry out, with some permanent damage expected. Add to this event many