Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt also needed Sudanese approval of the huge reservoir that will back up 100 miles into the Sudan behind the big dam, engulfing the land of thousands of Sudanese farmers. When talks broke down last year, the Sudan was demanding $100 million in compensation and Nasser was offering only $25 million. The two sides were also far apart on the proportion of river water each would get in a new pact...
...between the two nations improved this year, and after months of polite suggestions from Cairo that talks resume, the Sudan's military strongman, Lieut. General Ibrahim Abboud, finally sent a new delegation north to discuss the matter. The Sudan had a reason of its own to settle with Egypt: it, too, was planning some big irrigation projects, could get World Bank loans only if the Nile dispute was ended...
Nasser himself greeted the Sudanese and put them up at Tahra Palace. From then on, it was merely a matter of the routine haggling that each side expected of the other. Nasser stepped in personally to raise Egypt's compensation offer to $43 million, and the Sudanese were happy to accept after getting a greatly increased share (18.5 billion cubic meters v. 4 billion in the 1929 pact) of the increased water supply to be accumulated when Egypt's Aswan High Dam holds back the vast amount of wasted water that normally goes down into the Mediterranean every...
However poorly socialists may have fared electorally of late elsewhere, there was plainly lots of life yet in the collective farmer of Sde Boker and his Mapai Party. They had won new security for their country by the Sinai military campaign against Egypt exactly three years ago last week, and encouraged a new prosperity for their merchants by relaxing their stiffest controls. They had brought a flood of newcomers (and new social problems) from Morocco, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran. And they had convinced the young and the newly arrived of their party's forward look by running such attractive, vigorous...
Ever since Syria united with Egypt 21 months ago, the Syrian presidential palace in Damascus has been little more than a place where local politicians sip coffee while carrying out the long-distance orders of others. But last week the slouching sentries were snapping as never before. Egypt's Nasser had sent up his own commander in chief, Abdel Hakim Amer, on a special mission from Cairo-to make a restless partner happier with its lot. No longer was there any pretense that Syrians were running their own show...