Word: aswan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last visit was hardly auspicious. After John Foster Dulles went to Cairo in 1953, relations between Egypt and the U.S. began to disintegrate; the U.S. subsequently refused to underwrite the building of the Aswan Dam. The Russians gladly stepped in and began spreading their influence throughout the Middle East. Now as William Rogers follows up meetings in London, Paris and Ankara with a five-nation Middle East circuit this week, the U.S. hopes to make the most of his Cairo visit for peacemaking purposes. Rogers is paying ceremonial calls on Saudi Arabia and Lebanon, and will make a brief halt...
...most advanced ground-to-air missiles in the Russian arsenal, is a mobile version of the stationary SA-2s. Code-named "Ganef"*by NATO, the SA-4s have tanklike tracks and can be swiftly shifted. They are being deployed as part of the defense umbrella near the Aswan Dam and at Nag Hamadi, 125 miles north of Aswan on the Nile. In addition, more SA-3s and SA-2s are being shipped to Egypt. Israeli military sources conjecture that with Egyptians manning missile defenses near Suez, the Russians may feel that more batteries are necessary to make...
Springtime tourists in Egypt who had expected to take the two-hour flight from Cairo to Aswan for a glimpse of the High Dam are having to alter plans. The Egyptian government has announced that for a month or so, Aswan flights are being scrubbed. The cancellation is not difficult to understand. Soviet freighters and air force transports have been ferrying military supplies to Egypt, including jet fighters, sophisticated anti-aircraft guns, and additional SA-2 and SA3 missiles similar to those that already ring the dam and line the Suez Canal's west bank. The suspension of flights...
Missiles and Balloons. On balance, Aswan should prove a tremendous boon to Egypt's 34 million people. To protect it, batteries of SA3 missiles and Soviet-built ZSU-234 antiaircraft guns bristle in the rust-colored sand and rock ringing the dam's foaming gorge. Every night barrage balloons are winched up for added cover against Israeli bombers...
...Sadd El Ali has underscored how desperately Egypt requires even more development. In the decade needed to build the dam, nearly 10 million Egyptians were born-more than enough to fill all the jobs that will be created by Aswan's throbbing turbines and precious water...