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...underdeveloped countries an overwhelming success? Last week, as Soviet Premier Khrushchev granted $250 million in credits to Indonesia and rode through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, freshly paved from Soviet aid funds, the Russians' score seemed high. In some cases it is-e.g., Egypt's Aswan Dam, Cuba's sugar contract for 1,000,000 tons a year. But the overall Soviet-bloc record includes many a blunder. Even more important, by following the basic pattern of foreign aid laid down by the U.S., the Russians have been forced to follow a path of frustration...
...they call their town Phoenix because, he said, they would raise there a new civilization upon the ruins of the old. The new civilization did not win a real chance of success until after President Theodore Roosevelt pushed through his Reclamation Act of 1902. His first major project: Roosevelt Dam, northeast of Phoenix, which backed up enough water to support a citrus and truck-garden industry in Phoenix' sundrenched Salt River Valley...
Just as Soviet Power Station. Minister Ignaty Novikov was all set to fly home after attending ground-breaking ceremonies for President Nasser's Aswan Dam, an urgent cable arrived from the boss. Putting off his departure, Novikov rushed to Nasser's palace with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's message: "The government of the Soviet Union hereby expresses its readiness to join in the construction of the second stage of the Aswan High Dam on the same terms as agreed for the first." Hours later, Nasser sent his "greatly overjoyed" acceptance...
Four years ago, when John Foster Dulles abruptly withdrew a U.S. tender of a $56 million Aswan Dam loan, it looked as if the dam might never be built. But the Russians came through with a promise of about $10 million. That offer has survived Nasser's later disenchantment with the Soviets (he has, for example, quietly withdrawn many Egyptian students from Russian universities, is sending 500 to study in the U.S.). At the Aswan ceremonies, after duly thanking "the country that agreed to help us," Nasser grandly dismissed past "threats and economic pressures'' from the West...
...neutral these days, and no longer shows a pattern of antagonism for the West. Leaning away from the Communists because they back his rival Kassem in Iraq, he makes it clear that he has signed with the Russians to build only the Aswan project's first stage (coffer dams and a diversion canal). Concerning the project's more ambitious second and third stages (building the nearly three-mile-long, half-mile-thick dam itself and its power plants), Public Works Minister Mousa Arafa says: "As a neutral country, we will take the offer most to our benefit." Despite...