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When the new High Dam at Aswam, Egypt, is finished in about eight years, it will create one of the largest artificial lakes in the world--over 200 miles long. Lost beneath the waters will be the whole of pre-historic Nubia, according to Brew. Archaeological remains from paleolithic Nubria, pre-dynastic and dynastic Egypt, and Greco-Roman culture are in the threatened area...
...Secretary of the Air Force [during the Truman Administration], I would like to know how many missiles he ordered. It was very, very few." But by week's end Nixon was back on his carefully noncontroversial path. In Oregon's Columbia River country to dedicate his second dam in a fortnight. Nixon told some 3,500: "There is no difference between a great majority of leaders of both political parties in firmly standing behind the President ... in supporting the fight of the people of Berlin and the world to achieve the kind of government they want...
...city cops all the way from Manhattan to Tokyo, police in once placid Amsterdam were being run ragged by teen-age punks. Dressed in juvenile delinquency's international uniform-leather jacket and blue jeans-Amsterdam's longhaired nozem* liked to roar around the city's central Dam Square on souped-up motorcycles, scaring tourists, chasing pretty girls and disrupting traffic. Time and again police squads charged gangs of nozem with batons and sabers swinging; the nozem continued to flourish, and nozempie kijken-watching the nozem-became a popular evening pastime in Amsterdam...
Delighted with their growing audiences, the nozem recently began to extend their activities into one of Amsterdam's chief tourist attractions-the legalized red-light district, occupying a network of ijth century streets around Dam Square. While police fumed impotently. the nozem ranged up and down, heckling tourists on the prowl, making fun of the prostitutes, sometimes even smashing the big bay windows in which the girls display themselves. To avoid trouble, tourists began to stay away from the district; prostitution and pimping revenues fell accordingly...
...over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner flatly rejected Fat Steak's offer. But last week idle Amsterdamers out for a spot of nozem watching found remarkably little to look at. Those nozem who did appear in Dam Square spent their evenings in subdued conversation-and in the red-light district there was not a nozem to be seen...