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...Soviet-bloc nations are muscling in on the Middle East, particularly in the field of heavy construction, where the West Germans previously had a clear lead. Last December, despite the fact that West German experts were the first to make technical studies of the proposed Aswan High Dam, Nasser's United Arab Republic, in accepting Russian financial help, pledged itself to give Russia exclusively the first five years' construction work. This month Russia grabbed off 20 choice, long-term industrial projects in Iraq...
...expected big trouble when the season's main flood waters hit the dam-and we have got it," said a dispirited game warden last week as he stood on the banks of Rhodesia's man-made Kariba lake. Before his weary, red-rimmed eyes lay a vast tract of drowning land. Two hundred yards away a dozen monkeys clung to the rocky crown of a tiny island that was being swallowed up in the dappled waters. The monkeys' ribs showed through their shrunken skin, their liquid, pleading eyes turned desperately this way and that...
Brown Fruit. The artificial lake, formed by the mighty Zambesi River, stretches back 110 miles toward the pluming spray of the 350-ft. Victoria Falls. It is held in check by the towering new Kariba dam, hailed as the greatest piece of masonry in Africa since the days of the Pharaohs. The simple Batonga tribesmen who lived in the valley for centuries had-with difficulty-been evacuated to higher ground (TIME. Dec. 15). Now it was the turn of thousands of animals, in one of the world's richest game sanctuaries, and there were only eleven...
...Eisenhower Administration has been anxious to represent itself as standing for political morality at home and liberal policies abroad. Its recent decision to reject the low bid of a British firm for turbines for an Arkansas dam has not helped to complete this image...
...been in areas affecting the "national security" of Great Britain. To discourage British trade is to invite retaliation, which would reduce the business of the very American company whose continued operation is the alleged goal of the present contract. Critics also point out that earlier the Administration said the dam was not worth constructing, but now it seems that its importance is such that the extra cost of the high bid is unimportant...