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Biggest single gift is the 82-ft.-long Temple of Dendur complex, which Egypt offered to the U.S. for its help in saving ancient temples (including Dendur) from the rising waters behind the new High Dam at Aswan. Though several museums wanted it, the Met won by promising to build a special climate-controlled building to protect it from the rigors of U.S. weather. The costliest gift is the private collection of Investment Banker Robert Lehman, which includes masterpieces by Botticelli, Da Vinci and Rembrandt and has an estimated value of over $100 million. The late Bobby Lehman, former board...
...intelligence reported that Russian planes have been arriving at Cairo airport in recent days at the rate of seven an hour-presumably bringing SA-3s as well as Soviet technicians to operate them. Ten to 15 SA3 sites have already been detected around Cairo, Alexandria and the Aswan High Dam. Israel's tactic at the moment is to ignore distant installations but to attack possible sites within 15 miles of the Suez Canal. While bombing such sites last week, Israeli planes were intercepted by Egyptian MIG-21s. Four MIGs were downed in one running dogfight and five in another...
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...fight to preserve those lands and the water required to make their acreage livable is a constant one for U.S. Indians. The Senecas are still bitter about the 10,000 acres taken in 1964 by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Kinzua Dam. The Senecas were paid $3,000,000, but to them land is no mere matter of money?it is a spiritual as well as a sustaining resource. The Tuscaroras of New York lost 553 acres to a reservoir in the late 1950s. They were paid $850,000, only to learn that nearby Niagara University...
...which takes care of all expenses (even liquor), travelers will get a whirlwind eight-day tour of Siberia. It will include a flight with a view of the Great Wall of China, a banquet in Irkutsk, a hydrofoil trip on Lake Baikal and a visit to the Bratsk dam. For another $400, the package will stretch to 15 days. Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, will take over at Khabarovsk and fly tourists to Moscow, Samarkand and Tashkent...