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...convinced him that Egypt must have arms to defend itself, and the U.S. refused to provide them. It was just a commercial transaction, he said. Wary now, but still hopeful, the U.S. made a counterbid for Nasser's favor, offered to help build the $1.3 billion high dam on the upper Nile at Aswan...
...hotly debated details of the Suez crisis is whether Secretary of State Dulles provoked Egypt's Premier Nasser into seizing the Canal by a too-precipitate cancellation of U.S. funds for Egypt's dream project, the Aswan Dam. There is some evidence that Nasser had decided to nationalize the Canal long before Dulles canceled Aswan. Last week came evidence that Dulles' decision was so precipitate that the U.S. Ambassador in Cairo first learned about it from the newspapers...
Into the hopper of the Federal Power Commission last week plopped a report from the Interior Department discussing the possibility of building a new federal high dam on the Snake River between Oregon and Idaho. The report, as it stood, was a drastic modification of former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay's stand against the celebrated Hell's Canyon federal dam, a stand which some Western Republicans have blamed for the defeat of many a Western Republican candidate last November (including Oregon's candidate for the U.S. Senate Doug McKay...
Symbolically, the high dam now suggested by Interior would impound water enough to obliterate the Hell's Canyon dan site-much as McKay's energetic successor, Interior Secretary Fred A. Seaton, is superimposing on McKay policies strong new decisions...
Refitted Policy. Though Seaton, like McKay, holds to the Eisenhower concept of private-public partnership in river development, he takes a broader view of what can be accomplished. Studying the private low dams that McKay favored, Seaton noted that they offered only limited flood control, failed therefore to achieve full development of the Snake's potential. One high dam (at Pleasant Valley, downstream from Hell's Canyon) would generate more power and provide more flood control than two McKay-type low dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep, he explained to the Federal Power Commission. (Before...