Word: aswan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arms-jets and tanks, and Russians to train their operators-with a lavishness that the U.S. has no intention of matching. As recently as last December, the Soviet Union acquired by agreement all construction rights for the first five years' work on Nasser's pet project, the Aswan Dam, despite a counteroffer from West Germany that would have involved no political strings...
...tactics as it did. 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...
Until a few weeks ago. the energetic West Germans had hoped to get in on the construction of Nasser's beloved Aswan Dam by offering him $50 million to help build it. Then Bonn for the first time learned about a vital clause in Nasser's December agreement with Moscow. The Russians had demanded and apparently got a veto over all contracts for the first section of the project-building a cofferdam, dividing the Nile around the site, etc. Asked Izvestia sweetly: "Do they [the West Germans] wish to make commitments on the second section...
...were many rumors but little evidence of Communist arrests in Syria. He carefully made no mention at all of the even touchier situation created by the Communists in Iraq. Nasser's regime signed a contract with a Soviet delegation in Cairo for the building of Nasser's Aswan high dam, and Nasser's propagandists, covering the boss's anxious retreat, put out the naive-sounding line that Arabs must distinguish sharply between bad local Communists and good Russians. Nothing in the Syrian unpleasantness, wrote Nasser's trained seal. Editor Mohammed Heikal of Al Ahram, must...
...Western specialists regard Nasser himself as deeply but, in the long run, not irretrievably committed to the Communists. In the short run, they think his hands are tied. A Russian mission in Cairo is keeping him dangling over how much responsibility they are willing to assume in building the Aswan High Dam. Some 20 shiploads of Soviet-bloc machinery and equipment vital to his industrialization plan are due in a few weeks. He dares only hint at his peril...