Word: damming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cannot imagine how pleasant it is to read a nice story about Egypt once in a while. For years I have hunted for reports of the kind you have written about the Aswan Dam...
They felt that Nikita might as well have gone back home after attending to his main business - inaugurating the Aswan Dam...
Balancing Budgets. In sum, while the dam represents a considerable success for Russia, Khrushchev fared less well with his personal and political appeals in Egypt. At week's end the sight of ripe Egyptian wheat roused him to his old antics as he toured the Liberation province land-reclamation project. He sickled and tasted some of the grain ("a bit dry"), criticized the housing facilities for peasants ("too costly"), later congratulated winners of a skeet-shooting contest. Between outings, Nikita retired to rest and continue private talks with Nasser...
Much of the talk was inevitably about money. This year Egypt must pay Moscow the first of twelve annual payments on the estimated $271 million Moscow is putting into the Aswan Dam and ancillary installations. Though eventually the project will pay for itself in new cropland and electric power, these benefits will not be fully realized for nearly a decade, during which Nasser needs even larger sums for industrial development, and already Egypt owes the Soviet bloc $800 million plus a large, secret bill for arms. Khrushchev hinted broadly that there would be further massive credits-even though some Russians...
Drowning the Past. As the dam deadline approached, two dozen archaeological teams from 14 countries swarmed over the land searching for last-minute finds. At least 23 of Nubia's major historical sites have been or will be res cued from the waters-some of them simply by being cut up and carted away. A West German engineering firm won a UNESCO contract to save the Upper River's most famous temple: the sandstone statuary and columns carved 3,000 years ago on the order of Pharaoh Ramses II at Abu Simbel, 180 miles above Aswan...