Word: uam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would like to point out that President Kennedy's request for $4,000,000. which the House Appropriations Committee turned down [TIME, Sept. 22], was not to be used to jack up the Temple of Abu Simbel above the rising waters of the Nile's Aswan High Uam in Egypt. The President felt that the American contribution in the form of funds accumulated in Egypt could best be used to preserve the lesser temples in the U.A.R. and Sudan and help finance archaeological exploration in the Nubian area of Egypt, also threatened once the dam is completed...
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