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Odyssey (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). "Book of the Dead," a dramatization of the ancient Egyptian literature that instructed Nile dwellers for life after death...
...about Europe to put out fires as he did in digging. But the canal was built, England placated, and in 1869 the waters of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea were joined directly for the first time-more than 3,000 years after the earliest known attempt, using the Nile as a connecting link, was supposedly made by the legendary Pharaoh Sesostris...
...neither pro-East nor pro-West," insisted Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser once again last week. The day before, with the proclaimed purpose of exterminating Western influence and "foiling imperialist plots," the Dictator of the Nile announced the "Egyptianization" of all British and French banks and insurance companies in the country. All other foreign banks and companies, including the U.S.-owned First National City Bank branch in Cairo, were given five years to Egyptianize, i.e., turn over all ownership and operation to native-born Egyptian citizens...
...wisest of Arab leaders recently remarked that if Arab borders had been drawn sensibly and in the Arab interest rather than where Europeans had drawn them, rewarding this prince and that sheik, there would be four natural Arab nations: 1) Maghreb in North Africa, 2) the land of the Nile Valley, 3) Arabia Deserta, including not only Saudi Arabia but Yemen and all the little trucial sheikdoms, 4) the Fertile Crescent, stretching from the Mediterranean at Lebanon to the Persian Gulf, and including Syria and Iraq in a unity of the Tigris and Euphrates valleys...
...voice was subdued, grim, with none of the usual flamboyant confidence. From his little office in ex-King Farouk's boathouse on the Nile, Gamal Abdel Nasser appealed to 22½ million Egyptians. His words carried also to an enormous Arab audience from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf, from Casablanca to Basra...