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...Guam (pop. 100,000), a 209-sq.-mi. island 1,500 miles north of New Guinea, taken as a prize of the Spanish-American War. It has a nonvoting representative in Congress...
Looked at on a map, Egypt is a big country: 386,900 sq. mi., or about the size of France and Spain put together. A satellite photo, which can distinguish between desert and arable land, tells a different story. Viewed from space, the real Egypt?the land that man can live on?is small and lotus-shaped. A thin, two-to ten-mile-wide strip of green, the flower's stem, follows the Nile north from the Sudan border; then, near Cairo, comes the blossom, the Nile Delta. In that narrow space of 13,800 sq. mi., no larger than...
Overpopulation has turned Cairo into a municipal disaster. More than 1,000 peasants move to the capital every day, and the city now swarms with 8 million people. In the worst slums, where the population density is nearly 250,000 per sq. mi., the squalor and degradation match Calcutta's. Vast numbers of displaced fellahin spend their lives in one room, sleeping on the floor, taking their water from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet. Many go through a whole lifetime without once taking a bath. Infants who play in garbage and excrement are themselves covered...
...Sinai. Egypt would regain sovereignty over this huge (23,440 sq. mi.) desert peninsula, and Israel would withdraw its forces to the pre-1967 lines and remove its 16 Sinai settlements. Israel regards the area primarily as a strategic buffer zone. To ensure Israel's security, Egypt's armed forces would not move beyond the twelve or so mile-wide strip it now occupies east of the Suez Canal. The rest of Sinai would be demilitarized and policed by a U.N. peace-keeping force. Although American monitoring 8 technicians now in the Sinai should be recalled...
...India's most devastating tropical storm since 1971. What had turned the storm into a killer were the 18-ft. tidal waves that swept as far as 15 miles inland across the low-lying rice land and coconut gardens of the Krishna River delta. About 150 sq. mi. of land became a solid sheet of water. Twenty-one villages, 13 of them in the delta, were inundated, leaving 2 million homeless. The port of Machilipatnam, 20 miles upriver, was destroyed. All told, about 2 million acres were affected, including 200,000 acres of rice ready for harvesting...