Word: cofferdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 of the dam five years beforehand?" In other words, Nasser is stuck with the Russians exclusively at the dam site until 1964, and they can work like beavers...