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...Egypt's President-the Suez reopening (see box page 28). Sadat is aware of the canal's economic potential for Egypt's 37 million hard-pressed people. He is aiming to repopulate the canal's shores and has established a giant free-trade zone around Port Said to lure industry and generate jobs...
...billion. "Think what a paradise Egypt would be," he says dramatically, "if that had been invested to develop this country." When the Palestine National Council, a kind of parliament of the P.L.O., met in Cairo last year, Sadat sent its members on a sightseeing tour to Suez city, Port Taufiq and Qantara East. Explained an Egyptian editor: "He wanted them to have an idea of what Egypt sacrificed for the Palestinians...
...plans would require the removal of 300 million cu. yds., a stupendous undertaking even with today's more advanced earth-moving equipment. The Egyptians are nonetheless confident. There is even some talk that the colossal bronze statue of Lesseps, torn to pieces and dumped in a Port Said shipyard at the time of the 1956 British-French-Israeli seizure of Suez, may be cemented together again and placed on a pedestal...
...immense iron ore reserves and the increasing global demand for the metal. For most miners, the aim is to make money quickly and get out. But in one community the situation is different. Shay Gap, a tiny (pop. 862), two-year-old town 120 miles inland from Port Hedland on the Indian Ocean, is proving that even the harshest environment can be tamed...
...crew of the submarine are an unappealing lot. They are first encountered at their home port, St.-Nazaire, in Occupied France, taking a final orgiastic gulp of life before setting out on Atlantic patrol. The time...