Word: mashour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab Contractors, Egypt's largest building firm, Osman has been charged by Sadat with overseeing the reconstruction of all canal zone cities. He plans to establish headquarters in Ismailia, his birthplace and seat of the old canal company. The clearance of the canal itself will be directed by Mashour Ahmed Mashour, 55, the ex-army officer and graduate engineer who has been chairman of the Suez Canal Authority since 1965. He has set a target date for opening the canal six months from the day work starts. Those who know the tough-minded Mashour say that he will make...
Sadat called for preliminary planning after initial Egyptian victories in the October war, and Mashour took the cue to solicit bids from salvage firms in France, Italy, Holland, West Germany and Yugoslavia. Mashour is close to signing a contract, probably with a Dutch-West German-Yugoslav consortium. The first job of the clearers will be to rid the banks of their lethal carpet of mines, and that step alone should take a month. Then divers will go into the water to pinpoint the positions and depths of wrecks. Silt, once thought to be a major barrier to reopening, will...