Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Egypt thumbed its nose at the United States late last month by openly arranging with Russia to purchase Czechoslovak arms, the State Department protested. But when the Soviet Ambassador to Egypt offered to finance the proposed Nile dam as Aswan and to expand the existing American technical assistance program in Egypt, he jolted the U.S. into action. Last Thursday the State Department hastily announced that the U.S. was itself offering to finance this dam...
...offer, it is t best a stopgap measure--a piece of undeserved candy with which to coax a precocious Egypt back into the Western fold. Russia has won a diplomatic victory by forcing the U.S., as the saying goes, either to "put up or shut up" over the Egyptian dam project...
...Solod urbanely told newsmen that the Communists now hope to extend their new relationship into all phases of Middle Eastern life. Said he: "Soviet foreign policy ... is to develop relations ... in political, economic and cultural fields." Solod confirmed reports that Russia had offered to build Egypt's High Dam, Premier Nasser's No. 1 economic project, and added that already "scientific missions, archaeologists, people of agriculture and so on" were on their way from Russia to Eygpt...
...surface, the record has been amazing. Setting aside half its budget for defense. Turkey has put 22 divisions into NATO, doubled its output of steel, cement, textiles. It has built 7,000 miles of road and started a dozen multipurpose dam projects. Its most spectacular gain has been in agriculture, where, with the help of subsidies and 40,000 imported tractors, it has doubled the tilled land and turned the country into an exporter of wheat and cotton...
...rally is scheduled to get under way at 12:30 p.m. from the Wilder Dam parking lot, between Hanover and White River Junction, and will be raced through backroads of central New Hampshire...