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...Sadat has even more ambitious projects for revitalizing the country. In essence, the President wants to free Egyptians from their centuries-old dependence on a narrow (average width: seven miles), 500-mile-long green belt on each side of the Nile River valley. The completion of the Aswan High Dam, with its water control and vastly increased production of electricity, will make that possible...
...architects of the new Egypt is Osman Ahmed Osman, 57, the principal contractor on the Aswan High Dam, who after the war was named Minister of Housing and Reconstruction by Sadat. Osman's first assignment is a $6 billion reconstruction of the Canal Zone, including the cities of Suez, Port Said, Ismailia and reclamation of land on both sides of the canal. Once that is completed, Osman wants to build a system of concrete culverts beneath the Suez Canal (which is now being cleared by teams of Egyptian, U.S. and British divers) that will carry water from the Nile...
Along with the Sinai project and the reclamation of 800,000 acres of land below the dam, Sadat envisions an even more audacious project-the reclamation of nearly 2 million acres of the sand-swirling Western Desert, between the green belt and Egypt's western borders. He becomes excited when he talks about this new frontier. "That's it, the west, I am all for a drive to the west. You know how much I like your western movies. We need the same in Egypt...
...oddball hero was Roger Guy English, 23, who claims to hold world marks for twisting, staying awake and kissing. His most serious attempt at record breaking will take place in August when he begins a 1,876-mile swim down the Mississippi River from Ford Dam, Minn., to New Orleans, which he has to do in fewer than 176 days...
Still, the strong feeling among newsmen, politicians and lawyers in London is that gagging writs will never again be a reliable device for silencing the press. Said Bernard Levin, a top columnist for the Times of London: "The dam is down beyond any possibility of re-erection." Mail Editor David English echoes the common sentiment among British journalists: "I don't think that after Watergate we could have gone on as before...