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...underdeveloped countries an overwhelming success? Last week, as Soviet Premier Khrushchev granted $250 million in credits to Indonesia and rode through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, freshly paved from Soviet aid funds, the Russians' score seemed high. In some cases it is-e.g., Egypt's Aswan Dam, Cuba's sugar contract for 1,000,000 tons a year. But the overall Soviet-bloc record includes many a blunder. Even more important, by following the basic pattern of foreign aid laid down by the U.S., the Russians have been forced to follow a path of frustration...
Just as Soviet Power Station. Minister Ignaty Novikov was all set to fly home after attending ground-breaking ceremonies for President Nasser's Aswan Dam, an urgent cable arrived from the boss. Putting off his departure, Novikov rushed to Nasser's palace with Premier Nikita Khrushchev's message: "The government of the Soviet Union hereby expresses its readiness to join in the construction of the second stage of the Aswan High Dam on the same terms as agreed for the first." Hours later, Nasser sent his "greatly overjoyed" acceptance...
...cotton deal that first brought them into Egypt, the Russians wound up undertaking to supply all the foreign money, material and advice to build the Middle East's greatest development project. After first luring President Eisenhower and West Germany's Ludwig Erhard into discussing help for Aswan's second stage, Nasser's aides now declared that it had been "inevitable" that the Russians should get the contract. They added that the Russians planned to merge the two stages of the billion-dollar job, thereby cutting construction time from ten to seven years. The Russians also promised...
Open to Offers. Nasser is being insistently neutral these days, and no longer shows a pattern of antagonism for the West. Leaning away from the Communists because they back his rival Kassem in Iraq, he makes it clear that he has signed 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...
Back to the Village. Any possible speedup at Aswan will be attractive to Nasser, who is pledged "to double the national income [currently a woeful $150 per capita] in ten years." Nasser, the audacious international adventurer, has at last begun looking to his country's internal needs. During a flurry of Cabinet meetings last June and July, the President ordered a rethinking of policies in the light of U.A.R. failures to extend its leadership in the Arab world-not only in Iraq, but also in Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, the Sudan, Libya. One result of this rethinking was Nasser...