Word: shenouda
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Dates: during 1975-1975
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...drainage canals, they say, were sidetracked by the 1967 war with Israel and are only now being revived. More important to agricultural experts is the fact that the dam helped stave off droughts in the exceedingly dry years of 1972 and 1973. "We are forever saved," says William K. Shenouda, Under Secretary of State responsible for the dam, "from the cycle of seven lean years and seven fat years that Joseph encountered in biblical times." A team from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Michigan, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology...