Word: nile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joke. Victims of the terror include some of Uganda's best-known political figures. In March, Michael Ondoga was snatched off the street shortly after Big Daddy dismissed him as Foreign Minister. His body was later found floating in the Victoria Nile. In September 1972, six gunmen barged into the nation's high court and dragged off the Chief Justice, Benedicto Kiwanuka. He disappeared without a trace, as did George Kamba, a former Ambassador to West Germany who vanished from a reception that Amin was giving in his honor. Ugandans explain the missing with a wry joke that...
...give the people some early measure of relief. But Sadat has even more ambitious projects for revitalizing the country. In essence, the President wants to free Egyptians from their centuries-old dependence on a narrow (average width: seven miles), 500-mile-long green belt on each side of the Nile River valley. The completion of the Aswan High Dam, with its water control and vastly increased production of electricity, will make that possible...
...Port Said, Ismailia and reclamation of land on both sides of the canal. Once that is completed, Osman wants to build a system of concrete culverts beneath the Suez Canal (which is now being cleared by teams of Egyptian, U.S. and British divers) that will carry water from the Nile to irrigate the Sinai desert. At least 350,000 acres of wilderness, he estimates, can be reclaimed by this process. "We wouldn't have done this before the building of the High Dam," says Osman. "If there had been a low Nile, we might have left the delta...
Essentially the plan is simple. Underneath the desert, running from the Sudanese border to El Alamein in the north, is a series of underground reservoirs connecting the major oases. Egyptians refer to this as the "Second Nile," or, as it is officially called, "the New Valley." Electric power from Aswan will be sent to the desert and used to pump up the water and irrigate the land. In a test project, 100,000 transplanted Egyptians are now living in the Kharga Oasis at the southeastern end of the desert, where they successfully raise crops and livestock. One farmer, Mohammed Mahmud...
...grim business of reprisals. At least 500 people are known to have been executed so far, mostly Lugbaras. A few were killed by firing squads; others were shot in the knees, doused with gasoline, and set afire, or trussed up and tossed alive into Lake Victoria or the Nile to drown or be devoured by crocodiles...