Word: landed
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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...
Last week Amer turned his attention to the businessmen, assuring them too that Cairo had no intention of fusing Syria's currency with Egypt's softer one. Next day Amer appealed to the peasants. "Nasser," he said, as he doled out 200 land deeds under Syria's land-reform program, "knows your aspirations and your pains because he has lived your lives...
...spite of all his efforts, one stubborn economic fact remained: two years of drought had turned Syria from a land that once exported 159 million Syrian pounds worth of grain a year to one that must now import 50 million pounds worth. Some Syrians, completely forgetting that Egypt itself is perennially one of the world's neediest cases, have begun to demand that Cairo do more to help. But the lack of rain in Nasser's northern province was one thing that even efficient Soldier Amer could do very little about...
...with the hot spirit of independence that is racing through the Congo like fire in dry bush, Belgium is holding elections there in December to offer a modicum of local self-rule, as a forerunner of a promised national government by Africans in 1964. But Congolese Africans, in a land 99% black, are impatiently several jumps ahead of the process...
...rights, power and authority within the zone . . . which the U.S. would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign . . . to the entire exclusion of the exercise by the Republic of Panama of any such sovereign rights, powers or authority." Thus the U.S. flag flies over a strip of land that divides Panama-an emotional situation easily exploitable by politicians...