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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...relief. But Sadat has even more ambitious projects for revitalizing the country. In essence, the President wants to free Egyptians from their centuries-old dependence on a narrow (average width: seven miles), 500-mile-long green belt on each side of the Nile River valley. The completion of the Aswan High Dam, with its water control and vastly increased production of electricity, will make that possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sadat Opens the Door | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...architects of the new Egypt is Osman Ahmed Osman, 57, the principal contractor on the Aswan High Dam, who after the war was named Minister of Housing and Reconstruction by Sadat. Osman's first assignment is a $6 billion reconstruction of the Canal Zone, including the cities of Suez, Port Said, Ismailia and reclamation of land on both sides of the canal. Once that is completed, Osman wants to build a system of concrete culverts beneath the Suez Canal (which is now being cleared by teams of Egyptian, U.S. and British divers) that will carry water from the Nile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sadat Opens the Door | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

Essentially the plan is simple. Underneath the desert, running from the Sudanese border to El Alamein in the north, is a series of underground reservoirs connecting the major oases. Egyptians refer to this as the "Second Nile," or, as it is officially called, "the New Valley." Electric power from Aswan will be sent to the desert and used to pump up the water and irrigate the land. In a test project, 100,000 transplanted Egyptians are now living in the Kharga Oasis at the southeastern end of the desert, where they successfully raise crops and livestock. One farmer, Mohammed Mahmud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sadat Opens the Door | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...long run, though, Aswan and its electricity output may turn out to be more effective. Within the next five years, more than 4,000 Egyptian villages will have electricity for the first time in history; in those that already have lights and television, there has been a change in nighttime habits. Already a slight drop in birth rates has been reported. "They have other ways to spend the time now," says a social worker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sadat Opens the Door | 5/20/1974 | See Source »

...request to Congress last week for $250 million in aid for Cairo. The last time Egypt received such a sizable American grant was nearly two decades ago, before Washington abruptly canceled its promised financial support for Gamal Abdel Nasser's favorite project, the High Dam at Aswan, which was ultimately bankrolled by the Soviets. If Congress approves Nixon's request for money, which seems likely at the present time, $25 million will be used to clear the Suez Canal and $80 million to buy U.S. grains. With the remaining $145 million the Egyptians will rebuild war-demolished Suez...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Sadat's American Connection | 5/6/1974 | See Source »

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