Word: arafa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Russians to build only the Aswan project's first stage (coffer dams and a diversion canal). Concerning the project's more ambitious second and third stages (building the nearly three-mile-long, half-mile-thick dam itself and its power plants), Public Works Minister Mousa Arafa says: "As a neutral country, we will take the offer most to our benefit." Despite the Russians' head start, Japan, Italy, Britain, Austria and West Germany are running hard for second-stage contracts. This month West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard is due in Cairo to offer...