Word: aswan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that negotiations between Jerusalem and Cairo could founder unless Carter persuades the Israelis to permit self-determination for the Palestinians, at least some time in the future. Carter will explore the issue further when he meets on Wednesday for an hour or two with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat at Aswan-a stopover that was unexpectedly added to his schedule during the weekend (see WORLD...
...eminently successful strategy. Carter, said Sadat ruefully, "is making my job very difficult. This embarrasses me. What surprises me most is ignoring the importance of the Palestinian issue, the core and crux of the whole problem." To make amends, Carter added a brief, unscheduled stop in Aswan to meet with Sadat on the matter this week...
...popular feelings that in large families children are a potential source of income. If the present annual population increase (2.3%) continues, demographers fear that Egypt will have between 60 million and 80 million people by the year 2000. Food production, which spurted after the completion of the Soviet-financed Aswan High Dam in 1971, has not kept pace with the numbers, and Egypt is forced to divert money from development to buy food from abroad. When the government cut food subsidies as an economy measure last January, Cairo's and Alexandria's poor rampaged through the streets in the worst...
...Aswan High Dam, a building project almost as monumental as the Great Pyramids, was once looked upon as a panacea for most of Egypt's ills. True, it has doubled the country's electric power output and improved the productive capacity of 900,000 acres of land, guaranteeing water to farmers in upper Egypt. But the dam has made some old problems worse. The Nile's silt, which enriched the delta through the millennia, is now trapped behind Aswan's concrete; farmers must buy artificial fertilizer to do what nature in the past provided free. Because...
...deeply involved in Lebanon's civil war -and on the losing side. Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia are privately pressuring the P.L.O. to end the fight against Israel and to accept the West Bank-Gaza state. Hussein figures prominently in these arguments. Last month he was in Aswan at Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's invitation to discuss the proposed linkage with the Palestinians, and before that in Damascus for similar talks with President Hafez Assad. Says one political observer in Amman: "The moderates want Hussein to 'leash' the West Bank to keep it from becoming...