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Last week the horror of the Black Hole was re-enacted in the newly independent Sudan when some 300 rioting Sudanese farmers on strike at a cotton project on the White Nile were rounded up by police and locked in a room at the new army barracks at Kosti only 65 ft. long and 23 ft. wide. "There were more than 300 of us in that prison room," said one who escaped at last. "We were all tired from the police chase and sick from standing too long under the sun. The room we were put in had only...
...mighty Nile, which brings the rains of equatorial Africa to the Mediterranean, has nurtured six millenniums of civilization in its valley and broad delta. But its trapped waters are not sufficient today to sustain the leaping population of modern Egypt. One of the most publicized projects of Premier Gamal Nasser's revolutionary government is the building of a vast water barrier at Aswan (where the Nile courses through the eastern Sahara), which will bring another 2,000,000 acres of Egypt into production, boost Egypt's power resources 10 billion kilowatt-hours. Estimated cost of Nasser...
...case in point was the Aswan Dam, which would harness the Nile, provide the parched areas of Egypt with the largest man-made reservoir in the world (and, in fact, do as much for the Egyptian economy as all public works since 1900 have done for the U.S. economy). Highlights of the briefing...
Since the Nile drops an average of only six inches per mile, Nasser's not-so-crazy visitor saw that one big dam would do much to meet the nation's needs...
...State Department steeled itself to ask Congress for perhaps $200 million more, spread out over the ten years that the dam will take to build. With hopes for another loan from Britain, Premier Nasser can afford to turn down the Russian offer and still stop up the Nile with a mighty wall, not of concrete but of granite blocks, just like the ones that pyramids were made...