Word: sudanized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Khalil sternly refused to let the Russians stage an "atoms for peace" exhibition in Khartoum, arrested and questioned Sudanese students who attended last summer's Moscow Youth Festival. On another occasion he acidly reminded the Russians that they kept a 55-man staff in Khartoum, compared with the Sudan's three men in Moscow...
Cash for Cotton. Khalil's stand against Communist attempts at penetration have been forthright. His Umma Party espouses "positive neutrality," and Khalil sees that it is exactly that. When the Russians offered to take the Sudan's unsold cotton crop last year in exchange for arms, Khalil replied bluntly that what he wanted was agricultural machinery, not tanks. "We're not going to fight anybody," he said. "The cotton market is just a few hundred yards from the Soviet embassy. They can walk there and buy any time they want. And they can pay cash...
...increasingly solid support for his policies. Nine months ago Khalil felt unable to sign up for U.S. aid when U.S. Special Ambassador James P. Richards offered it under the Eisenhower Doctrine. But last month he announced acceptance of U.S. technical aid under the U.S. Mutual Security Program. And the Sudan's cotton crop, which Khalil refused to mortgage to the Russians for arms, is now moving well on Western markets...
...major crop is cotton. But the Sudan also produces nine-tenths of the world's supply of gum arabic, is going ahead on its own with a well-thought-out plan (originated by Britain after World War I) for developing the Gezira region, a 5,000,000-acre triangle of potentially rich flatland between the Blue and White Niles...
...that the Gezira needs to make it the most green and pleasant land in all of the Sudan is water. Because of the area's gentle slope, engineers have only to scoop canals to bring water flowing in from the Blue Nile. Already, more than 25% of the Gezira tract is blooming-a sort of California Imperial Valley development in the midst of the parched Sudanese plains. A Sudanese proposal to expand the Gezira development by another dam on the Blue Nile at Roseires (see map) has met with violent opposition by Egypt. For years Egypt and the Sudan...