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...their onetime colonial masters. An outstanding example of the second category is the onetime condominium known as the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. Next month the Sudan will hold its first general elections since independence was formally achieved two years ago. For a report, see FOREIGN NEWS. Promise on the Nile...
...SUDAN Promise on the Nile...
...baked capital of Khartoum, Africa's biggest new nation prepared this week for the Sudan's first general election since independence was formally achieved two years ago. On the spreading veranda of the Grand Hotel, dapper officials gazed out over the heat-shimmering waters of the Blue Nile, sipped whiskies and soda, conversed alternately in the clipped accents of Oxford and Cambridge and the throaty lilt of Arabic. Less prosperous politicos gathered for drinks or coffee at Pagoulatos' Confectionery and Bar Lord Byron...
...politician, he presides over a constituency that is one of the world's most complex. The Sudan is nearly four times as large (967,500 sq.mi.) as Texas, has a population (10.2 million) less than that of the New York metropolitan area. From Wadi Haifa, astride the Nile at the Egyptian border, the Sudan stretches south 1,250 miles to Yei, at the border of the Belgian Congo...
...that the Gezira needs to make it the most green and pleasant land in all of the Sudan is water. Because of the area's gentle slope, engineers have only to scoop canals to bring water flowing in from the Blue Nile. Already, more than 25% of the Gezira tract is blooming-a sort of California Imperial Valley development in the midst of the parched Sudanese plains. A Sudanese proposal to expand the Gezira development by another dam on the Blue Nile at Roseires (see map) has met with violent opposition by Egypt. For years Egypt and the Sudan...