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...mobile version of the stationary SA-2s. Code-named "Ganef"*by NATO, the SA-4s have tanklike tracks and can be swiftly shifted. They are being deployed as part of the defense umbrella near the Aswan Dam and at Nag Hamadi, 125 miles north of Aswan on the Nile. In addition, more SA-3s and SA-2s are being shipped to Egypt. Israeli military sources conjecture that with Egyptians manning missile defenses near Suez, the Russians may feel that more batteries are necessary to make up for the Egyptian lack of proficiency. "God knows where they're going...
Since those of the immemorial shipyards of the Nile...
...technocratic dynasty, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat last week celebrated the completion of a project 17 times larger than Cheops' Pyramid at Giza. Grasping a pair of ceremonial shears, Sadat snipped a bright green ribbon to dedicate El Sadd El AH, the Aswan High Dam on the Upper Nile. As he did, a band played, young girls released flocks of doves, and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny spoke one word of Arabic: "Mabrouk [Congratulations...
...miles to the north. The dam will control floods and irrigate 1,300,000 acres of heretofore arid land. Until now, Egyptians have been able to farm only 4% of their land; the dam will enable them to reach out from the narrow ribbon of greenery along the Nile to which they have been confined for thousands of years. It will also permit farmers to grow many double and triple crops...
...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...