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...Aswan High Dam, at once Egypt's greatest new economic resource and symbol of national pride, was completed last week after ten years of the most arduous construction work since the pharaohs put up the pyramids. As the dam has risen to 350 ft. above the Nile, so has the reputation of the man who built it: Osman Ahmed Osman, the largest building contractor...
...20th visit to Israel in the past two years, Levin talked with nine of the 13 generals on the Israeli general staff. On the other side of the Arab-Israeli lines, Beirut Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was interviewing officials in Egypt, began his week by breakfasting on the Nile and wound up reporting the melee at Amman Airport as American evacuees boarded rescue planes. He was aided by Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell, also a veteran Middle East hand. In New York, the cover story was written by Spencer Davidson, edited by Ronald Kriss, and researched by Ursula Nadasdy...
...bring guests home because some callers might be spies who would notice the nearby missile site's 65-ft. "Squat Eye" tower, so nicknamed by NATO. Similarly, the Mokattam Casino, from which the view was too clear, has been moved lock, stock and roulette table to the Nile Hilton Hotel, from which no missiles can be visible...
...comes with cooks, bottle washers, the lot." Occasionally an Egyptian might glimpse a busload of Russians visiting the pyramids, or see a group of beefy, fair-skinned workers at Agomy beach west of Alexandria. To one recent British visitor, however, Cairo is beginning to look like Moscow-on-the-Nile. "My God," he complained, "even the shopkeepers assume you speak Russian." At the Gezira Sporting Club, once a famous British watering spot, he observed a number of Russians as well as East Germans and Czechs "lying around the pool reading Pravda...
...with the Soviets. Egyptian morale, in fact, is at its highest point in months. "The uncertainty of the future still gnaws at everybody," a Cairo businessman said last week, "but at least we know that Cairo won't be bombed." The piles of sandbags have disappeared from the Nile bridges, blue dimout paint has been scraped off windows and automobile headlights, and Suleyman Pasha Square is bathed in new floodlights...