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...most pollution. It will be equally difficult to clean up the mess already at hand. The Mediterranean, for instance, is badly ventilated. Water flowing in from the Atlantic through the narrow Strait of Gibraltar is flushed by outflow from four "lungs" -the Adriatic, the Aegean and the Rhone and Nile rivers. But these lungs, as Britain's Lord Ritchie-Calder notes grimly, are now polluted...
...southern Russia. Cyrus, a leader of the Achaemenian dynasty of the tribe, accepted Babylon's surrender in 539 B.C., and by the next year had founded an empire that at its height stretched from present-day India to the Aegean, and from the Danube to the Nile...
...initial revolt was bloodless, but the countercoup was a running battle that littered the streets of Khartoum with dead and crowded its hospitals with wounded. Though the fighting was confined to the capital and to Omdurman across the Nile, the repercussions rippled far beyond the Sudan. The Soviets quickly supported the dissidents and were noticeably distressed by Numeiry's countercoup. Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, the hotspur of the Arab world, barged into the internal problems of another nation for the second time in two weeks. He was more effective than he had been in Morocco, however. By forcing down...
...book Revolt on the Nile, however, Sadat outlined the intention of the Free Officers Movement to betray Britain to Rommel's Afrika Korps: "We made contact with the Germans' headquarters in Libya, and we acted in complete harmony with them" and "We would join with the Axis troops, and the fate of the British Empire would be sealed...
...Although your article "Make-Work on the Nile" [May 10] was interesting, it was not that new. Thirty-six years...