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...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 to irrigate the Sinai desert. At least 350,000 acres of wilderness, he estimates, can be reclaimed by this process. "We wouldn't have done this before the building of the High Dam," says Osman. "If there had been a low Nile, we might have left the delta to dry up if we siphoned water...
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...
...wonder if the Chicago Tribune would be so ready to desert an old friend if it could also read transcripts of conversations involving...
Donkey Caravans. With almost all of the drought area far away from the few railways, navigable rivers and paved roads, relief trucks have had to crawl along sand and dirt paths in desert heat. In Ethiopia, some of the neediest areas are so deep in the countryside that only caravans of donkeys and camels have been able to reach them...
...effect, a ledger of lessons to be learned for future profit. Successful art, however, satisfies another human need: the desire not to calculate but to know in the heart how things are. While The Barking Deer is not the whole story, it is a drop of moisture in a desert of data. Like those birthday dewdrops, it bears spirits that should be passed...