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...Naguib continued to prove a determined leader. On his first day as Premier, he presided over an all-night cabinet session (interrupted for prayers and sandwiches). At dawn next day, his government promulgated a code of reform laws designed to make sweeping changes in the ancient land of the Nile. The laws would: ¶ Expropriate all land holdings over 200 acres within five years, landlords to be compensated by the government. ¶Distribute the new land (some 700,000 acres) to peasants owning no land or less than five acres. Maximum to be allowed new peasant landholders: five acres...
...archly asked her husband to give her the heifer as a pet. To get out of the fix, poor Io galloped down over the plains of Illyria, across the Balkan Mountains and swam the Bosporus. She kept going over land & sea until she reached the Nile...
...They stared incredulously at the marble, the gold, the diamonds, the pearls, the barrels of whisky, the mountains of rare coins, the statues of nudes. Outside the view was in striking contrast. The newsmen looked out over one of the world's worst agricultural slums: the Nile delta. The peasants toiling there-like most Egyptians-live in mud huts, dress in rags and eat the bread of the poor (Egypt has two kinds of bread; the rich, white variety is available only to the rich). Three out of four own less than an acre of land...
...children. Mohammed Naguib, 51, was the eldest of their three sons, born in Khartoum, but raised in the mud-walled village of Wad Medani, where his father was District Commissioner. Young Mohammed and his brothers, Aly and Mahmoud, splashed and scrapped in the germ-laden waters of the Blue Nile with the barefoot village boys, played soldiers in the muddy fields where the fellahin raised their cotton crops, and learned the timeless songs of the water-carriers...
...fertile Nile, cradle of a once-great civilization, is today one of the world's great slums. Desert covers 96% of Egypt, leaving less than six million acres of arable land, clinging in a narrow green strip to the winding Nile. There live 12 million hapless people, in the most densely populated rural area in the world. The wealthy one-tenth of one percent of Egypt's landowners hold almost 60% of the land. The army proposes to break up all estates of more than 200 acres, sell the surplus acreage to fellaheens with less than two acres...