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...Aswan High Dam. There was a state banquet at which Ulbricht and Nasser exchanged their countries' highest awards. To Nasser went East Germany's Order of the Grand Golden Star for International Friendship, to Ulbricht went Egypt's Great Collar of the Order of the Nile-and, to Ulbricht's wife Lotte, the Great Collar of the Order of Perfection...
That was about the only sign of perfection along the Nile last week, for Ulbricht was an expensive guest in a febrile situation. Nasser had invited Ulbricht as a way of getting even with West Germany for its secret arms shipments to Israel. When suspension of the shipments failed to head off the visit, Bonn retaliated. Over the past six years Bonn has supplied Egypt with more than $400 million in hard currency loans and development aid, and last week Chancellor Ludwig Erhard canceled all further financial support...
During the 49 days spent in 18 ports of call, the students went on field trips. Dena Lambie, 22, of Menlo Park, Calif., is rapturous over discovering the Orient and swimming with new-found Egyptian friends in the Nile. "I skied in Japan, saw the bullfights in Spain, and went Honda riding in Greece," recalls Janice Cope, 22, of Fresno, Calif. Manila offered the students a cockfight, Ceylon a performance by the Kandyan dancers. The semester trip, plus 17 course credits, cost $2,500 to $3,000, depending on accommodations...
...troops had liberated Ethiopia from Italian occupation in 1941 and permitted Haile Selassie to return home from his London exile. The Queen also visited Gondar and hiked a mile up a precarious mountain trail to look out over Tisisat Falls, a breathtaking scene near the source of the Blue Nile. Less than a century ago, a 32,000-man British force under Sir Robert Napier had crossed the same kind of trails (along with some 30,000 beasts of burden, including 45 elephants) to defeat Haile Selassie's famous predecessor, Emperor Theodore. Quite naturally, none of that imperial adventuring...
...right and on time, and are largely succeeding-even at the expense of Siberian dam projects, delayed because Russia's top engineering talent is in Egypt. The Russians are also expanding the Helwan steel complex and the Suez refinery for Nasser, and reclaiming 35,000 acres of Nile delta land; but one of Helwan's two coke boilers burned out after only two months' use, and the other is looking dangerously scorched...