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...shortage may cause a squeeze, but construction is now under way by many companies, including Hilton, Intercontinental and Marriott. On both sides of the Sinai, tourist officials foresee a bonanza as international travelers rush to visit both countries in a single trip. Says Fuad Shady, an official of the Nile Hilton: "We have the greatest tourist package in the world?the Holy Land combined with the world of the Pharaohs?and a great year-round climate...
...only major upset in the House races was the victory of Michael J. Barrett over Rep. Nile Nordberg (R-Reading), who had co-authored the unsuccessful Proposition 21/2 tax cut plan, cloned from California's Proposition...
...Sinai, but for the most part they preferred to preserve it as a buffer zone between themselves and the Israelis. To the Egyptian peasants, the region seemed a scorched, treeless moon scape, ill-suited for settlement. They preferred the congested misery of their villages in the fertile Nile Valley...
...principle to withdraw, Egyptian planners are busy drawing up ambitious schemes for transforming the Sinai into a rich national asset. In addition to oil exploration, mining and tourism, the government has plans for reclaiming 700,000 acres of land in the northwestern Sinai by piping in water from the Nile...
...made new dreams possible. In the past, Osman claims, Egypt was in constant danger of running out of water in any given year and thus could not develop new areas. Now, the Egyptians believe, they have the water power to make the northwestern Sinai blossom like the Nile Valley...