Word: nasserism
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...rash U.S. decision, Richard Nixon might have been on the platform instead of Podgorny. When the darn was being planned in 1956, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser won pledges of $268 million in assistance from the World Bank, the U.S. and Britain. But when Nasser began talking about seeking funds from Moscow too, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles decided to punish him by revoking Washington's pledge. Britain and the World Bank thereupon also reneged. Moscow moved in with a flourish, eventually lending Cairo $554 million of the dam's $800 million cost. The Russians...
Power and Water. Aswan was actually finished last summer, ten years after work began. Nasser planned to hold the dedication last July 23 to celebrate the 18th anniversary of the revolution that brought him to power. But negotiations over a proposed Middle East cease-fire forced him to put it off, and he died before he could see his grandest project dedicated...
Silt and Snails. The dam and the 350-mile-long Lake Nasser behind it are also creating ecological problems. The rich alluvial silt that once flowed downriver and spilled over onto farm lands is being impounded behind the dam, forcing Delta farmers to buy synthetic fertilizers...
Bilharzia, a parasite carried by water snails, has crept into Lake Nasser and the irrigation canals, infecting countless Egyptians. Salt washed out of previously unirrigated land has been carried downstream to increase the saline content of the eastern Mediterranean and threaten sea life...
Sadat has bid for popularity among the lower classes by cutting some food prices, invoking price controls and launching an attack on black-market operators. He has declared a truce with a hostile middle class by revoking the laws that Nasser instituted a decade ago to seize their property. He told a visitor last week that he intends to release some 600 political prisoners. Streets in Cairo are being repaired and swept for a change, new street lights are being installed, and sandbags protecting the Nile bridges are being replaced by shrubbery...