Word: egypt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cajolery and wheedling were unsuccessful. Bullying and intrigue did not work. So Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, having used up all his other stunts, and being more moderate these days anyway, tried reasonable compromise on his southern neighbor, the Sudan. It worked. Last week the two nations finally got together over the division of the waters of the Nile. Nasser had urgent reasons for settling the long dispute: this month Soviet engineers arrive to start work on the first stage of the huge Aswan High Dam project-a scheme designed to expand Egypt's farmland...
They did just that last year when, tired of arguing with Egypt over a new pact to revise the old Anglo-Egyptian Nile treaty of 1929, Sudanese officials simply began diverting Nile water into their own irrigation system eleven crucial days before the date stipulated for such annual action. As a result, the Egyptian rice crop was damaged; Cairo protested hotly, and the Egyptian press cried that the Sudan was guilty of all kinds of crimes, including genocide...
...Long Silence. "Africa is calling," Donald wrote cheerily. The tour headed south to the Riviera, turned east into Italy, drove across Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon, and finally put their cars aboard a boat bound for Port Said. On July 24, Donald sent his sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food...
...five languages and six editions. Scholars have been waiting for it since 1946, when word went through the learned world that jars containing 13 leather-bound papyrus manuscripts-part of a 4th century Gnostic library-had been found in a sand-covered tomb in Upper Egypt. Laymen had been waiting for the book since last spring, when Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann, in a lecture at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, quoted some tantalizing excerpts from the "sayings of Jesus" contained in one of the volumes, which Cullmann compared in importance with the Dead Sea Scrolls (TIME, March...
...recent years, Conferences have dealt with "Democracy in Trade Unions," with "Problems of American Foreign Policy in North Africa," with "U.S. Policy toward Communism in Asia." This spring a diversified choice awaits members of the School, for topics include: "Egypt's Role in World Affairs," "Soviet Aims in Foreign Policy," and "National Security and Individual Freedom (e.g. the Fifth Amendment...