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...Sudan, the story is much the same: 518 fighters arrived in August, and only 370 remain today. The Palestinians who live in tents at Mashtal el Bassatin, a Nile village 120 miles north of Khartoum, occasionally call themselves Polisario, after the desert guerrillas of northwestern Africa. Says one: "We did not choose to come here." Discipline at Mashtal el Bassatin has broken down only once: on the day the fighters heard over the radio of the Beirut massacre. Outraged, some of the men set their tents on fire. About 100 of them had relatives in the two Beirut camps...
...images revealed stream channels, broad flood plains and what millenniums ago had been great river valleys, some as wide as those of the Nile. Though a few experts speculate that the ancient and modern water systems were once connected, there is no supporting evidence. In fact, says McCauley, "the trending of the [ancient] rivers is to the south and west, the opposite of the present-day movement. It is possible they all joined up to one large basin of interior drainage as large as the Caspian...
...volunteer effort was in the planning for seven years after Fiennes' wife Virginia first proposed it to her husband, whose previous ventures had included a Hovercraft expedition on the White Nile. Fiennes met Burton, a former army corporal, at a party, and he agreed to go along on a training mission to the Arctic in 1977. An advertisement for a deck hand turned up Anthony Bowring, a seaman, who tracked down a 27-year-old polar ship. Bowring then persuaded his father's insurance firm, C.T. Bowring, and a New York insurance company to buy the ship...
...expansive sweep of civil engineering, from the pyramids of the Nile to the construction of the Panama Canal, nothing so huge, or costly, as Jubail has ever before been attempted by anyone." Says Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohammed Ali Abdul Khail, whose government has already spent $35 billion on Jubail and its smaller sister project Yanbu, and plans to spend upwards of $100 billion more in years to come: "We simply cannot exaggerate what is going on out here." Jubail is, in brief, a project of moon-landing proportions, one that in the very grandeur and scope of its conception...
Moko speaks as a tribal skeptic. If Livingstone's God is potent, why do the rains not come? Barred from Sechele's bed, she slithers back into it like a serpent of old Nile. When he reads from the Scriptures, Sechele's eyes are radiant. But is he a convert, or a con man more anxious for British guns than for God's grace? As for Livingstone, is not a single believer a joy to heaven? Or is he trying to amass a head count of natives for personal glory? Pownall raises these questions without really...