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...John Robinson Beal (TIME'S diplomatic correspondent in Washington), had been told before, but two points in the book were enough to precipitate the storm. Reported Author Beal: ¶Dulles last year canceled the proposed $56 million loan to help Egypt's Dictator Nasser build the Aswan Dam because "it was necessary to call Russia's hand in the game of economic competition. Dulles firmly believed the Soviet Union was not in a position to deliver effectively on all her economic propaganda offers. It was necessary to demonstrate to friendly nations, by act rather than by oral...
...make a decision to cancel the offer of aid on the Aswan Dam in order to force a showdown with the Soviet Union in the Middle East...
...reasons which dictated our declining to go ahead with the Aswan proposal. There was, perhaps first of all and most imperative, the fact that the Appropriations Committee of the Senate had unanimously passed a resolution providing that none of the 1957 funds could be used for the Aswan Dam. There was the fact that we had come to the feeling in our own mind that it was very dubious whether a project of this magnitude could be carried through with mutual advantage . . . Then there was the further fact that the Egyptians had . . . been developing ever-closer relations with the Soviet...
...issue in 1955 had been two alternate ways to dam the turbulent Snake River between Idaho and Oregon: 1) a single, high federal dam costing $400 million, which would generate 800,000 kw., or 2) three low, privately built dams costing $190 million, which would generate 783,000 kw. The FPC licensed the Idaho Power Co.'s low-dam plan on grounds that Congress was reluctant to pay for the high dam. Idaho Power promptly went to work on Brownlee Dam, first of its three low dams, even though public power groups went to court to block it. Gambling...
...development plan is not yet finished. North of the area fed by the Alvaro Obregón Dam stretches 300 miles of riverless desert. Beneath the parched earth lies a supply of fresh underground water. Engineers are already at work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation...