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...friend considered responsible for giving Nasser bad advice during the Syrian fiasco. The army shake-up so far has brought imprisonment or house arrest to an estimated 400 officers, many of whom have been sent to El Dakhla. a sand-rimmed Alcatraz in the desert wastes of the upper Nile. There they are joined by growing numbers of civilians, imprisoned for anti-Nasser sympathies. Government spies are everywhere. One Mme. Badrawi spent half an hour at Cairo's swank Automobile Club denouncing Nasser and provoking other society matrons to be equally frank. As she was about to leave, Madame...
...sake of accuracy, I would like to point out that President Kennedy's request for $4,000,000. which the House Appropriations Committee turned down [TIME, Sept. 22], was not to be used to jack up the Temple of Abu Simbel above the rising waters of the Nile's Aswan High Uam in Egypt. The President felt that the American contribution in the form of funds accumulated in Egypt could best be used to preserve the lesser temples in the U.A.R. and Sudan and help finance archaeological exploration in the Nubian area of Egypt, also threatened once...
...Turned down, in the House Appropriations Committee, a $4,000,000 request by President Kennedy to help jack up the entire Temple of Abu Simbel 203 feet above the rising waters of the Nile's Aswan High Dam in Egypt...
When Ramses built his temple, he probably expected it to impress the world until the end of time. He certainly did not dream that 3,185 years after his death a gigantic dam would block the Nile, and a long winding lake would creep gradually upstream to cover the temple's site with 190 ft. of water. But that is what is happening. Unless the ancient temple can be protected, the water backed up by the Aswan High Dam will submerge and probably crumble...
...rock enclosing its inner rooms will rise 203 ft., safely above the water. It will then be set into a rounded, natural-looking cap of artificial rock. The last step will be to construct in front of the temple a shelving piece of ground resembling the shore of the Nile, now left far below. When all is done, the great figures of Ramses II will stare out over the Aswan lake, as they stared out over the Nile before its waters rose...