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Louisiana faces flooding, high waters for three weeks
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Move could spare New Orleans, Baton Rouge from floods
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Eye on refineries, crops
(Adds spillway opens, details)
By Kathy Finn
MORGANZA, Louisiana, May 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Army engineers on Saturday opened a key spillway to allow the swollen Mississippi River to flood thousands of homes and crops but spare New Orleans and Louisiana's capital Baton Rouge.
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