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Racing against the day when the Aswan Dam will submerge a 250-mile section of the Nile Valley, University of Chicago archaeologists recently unearthed a major manuscript discovery. Dug from the ruins of a 10th century Christian monastery on the Egyptian-Sudanese border, their find is an ancient Coptic prayer book containing a hymn to the Cross recited by Jesus before the Crucifixion and a hitherto unrecorded conversation between Christ and his disciples after the Resurrection...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Operation Gwamba," the rescue of more than 10,000 South American animals from 870 square miles about to be flooded by a dam on the Suriname River. This show begins a new season for Twentieth Century; in color for the first time...
Sullen Twins. Then there are more immediate economic worries. Smith & Co. have it in their power to isolate landlocked Zambia from its markets and to cut off electrical power in the rich Zambian copper fields around Ndola. Rhodesians control the turbines and generators of the giant Kariba Dam on the Zambezi River, which forms the border between the two countries. Completed in 1960 under the now defunct Central African Federation, Kariba supplies both Zambia and Rhodesia with power, ties them together like sullen Siamese twins. For two weeks Kaunda has demanded that Britain at least send troops to "neutralize...
Instead, he offered to send a token force-a squadron of R.A.F. fighters and a battalion of the Royal Scots-to the copper belt, some 250 miles north of the dam. Kaunda accepted the air protection (Zambia has only ten military aircraft of its own), but rejected the offer of troops unless they were sent directly to the dam. Into the copper-belt center of Ndola at week's end swooped ten British Javelin jet fighters, accompanied by big-bellied Argosy and Beverley transports carrying the squadron's maintenance supplies. A brace of Britannia turboprop transports arrived...
...struggle to dam the dollar outflow, the Administration has cut tourists' take-home liquor, curbed bank loans, substituted scrip for soldiers' cash salaries in Viet Nam and even persuaded federal junketeers to stop at U.S.-run hotels abroad. Lately, it has not only leaned hard on investment by U.S. business in foreign plants and companies but has been warning that businessmen will be expected to do still more next year to help the U.S. achieve "equilibrium" in its balance of payments...