Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arctic Gas proposal could theoretically put U.S.-bound gas under the control of a Canadian government that is increasingly inimical to U.S. business interests. The prospect does not worry Arctic Gas officials. They emphasize that Canadian firms, having found large deposits of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta, would not only help to finance the pipeline but also use it to export surplus gas to the U.S. Adds William Brackett, the consortium's American vice chairman: "We've been shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway for years without any friction between the nations. Besides, if Canada were...
...bustees. The hopes and aspirations of the poor are almost pitifully simple: a living wage, a decent dwelling and a school for their children. And yet for so many these basic amenities are out of reach. TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn visited a cotton-growing region in the Nile delta some 80 miles southeast of Cairo, while Bernard Diederich talked to the inhabitants of a slum in Mexico City. Their reports...
When you first arrive in the dusty Nile delta village of El Bahu, you get the feeling that the people there have made almost no progress since Pharaonic times in the struggle against poverty, ignorance and disease. Mudbrick, flat-topped houses sit in an island of dust in a sea of green fields. The village is bordered on two sides by a tiny canal that is shaded by weeping willows, but the water is gray with filth and refuse. Dressed in knee-length tunics and pantaloons, the women of the village squat at the canal's edge...
...Only a few hundred yards away, the people can see power lines bringing electricity generated by the Aswan High Dam 500 miles to the south. Within a year they too will have light for their houses. As a result, there is a new kind of farmer in the Nile delta, who buys up land in anticipation of what progress the dam will bring...
...second husbands. Now they want to become schoolteachers." Adds a more affluent fellah: "It's the very poorest people here who are trying hardest to educate their children. They see education as a way to escape the misery and drudgery of farm life." No wonder. In the delta, a two-acre farmer like Hammouda is lucky to earn $400 a year; a landless farmworker makes only half that much. Even life in the slums of Cairo, to many of the young, sounds better than that...