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Aside from the Aswan High Dam, Moscow is believed to have nearly $2 billion in economic investment tied up in Egypt and almost $2 billion in military and economic assistance in Syria. If the Soviet presence declined dramatically, would or could the U.S. pick up where the Soviets left off? "I hope to God we don't," says one senior U.S. diplomat...
...with the Soviet Union. Beyond this affinity, Moscow has supported Syria's hard-line stand against Israel with massive military and economic support. The result has been an enforced if sometimes uncomfortable dependence upon the Soviets for everything from army supplies to civil engineers for the new Euphrates dam...
...north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush plain where the wheat fields are as endless as those in Kansas or Nebraska. This year Syria expects a bumper crop of two million tons. Farther to the west, along the Euphrates River, a giant dam will be finished this year. It will add another 1.6 million acres of arable farm land to the economy and eventually quadruple Syria's electric-power output...
...crazy horrible things too goofy and outlandish to cry about and too much true to laugh about--but the fog is getting thick enough I don't have to watch . . . Idiot, you just had a nightmare; things as crazy as a big machine room in the bowels of a dam where people are cut up by robot workers don't exist...
...upper Egypt, her exhausting itinerary included treks to the distant temples of Luxor, Karnak and Abu Simbel, with the Aswan dam thrown in. Through it all, she asked enthusiastic questions, and the ordeal was considerably mitigated by the warmth of the Sadats. Said the Egyptian President: "You are a part of Henry's family here...